Dr Connor Richardson - Am I in “Career Drift Mode?”

Dr Connor Richardson narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Career drift can happen when you proceed on your professional career course with no plan, or when a career strategy goes awry due to conditions beyond your control (like a pandemic.... or in academia... a lack of funding maybe?). It is easy to become reactive and stop being proactive career moves, taking the next job because it was offered (without building toward long-term goals) and now you feel stuck. Well, that's kind of how Connor felt in 2022, coming out of the pandemic, but could 2023 be a new year? Was that period of drift actually useful, and was 2022 all bad? Questions he answers in this blog.

Find the original text, and narration here on our website.

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-am-i-in-career-drift-mode/

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Dr Connor Richardson is a Neuro-epidemiology Research Associate in the Newcastle University Population Health Sciences Institute. Connor is the research statistician for the Cognitive Function and Ageing studies (CFAS) multi-centre population cohort. His research interest lies in using advanced statistical modelling and machine learning to measure dementia risk. Connor blogs about his research, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and sometimes his Pomapoo’s.

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