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Academia Won’t Love You Back: Rebecca Pope-Ruark on Money, Burnout, and Balance
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“We imagine professors in leather chairs thinking big thoughts, but the reality is—it’s a workplace that won’t love you back if you’re not producing.”
In this episode of Academics and Their Money, Neeka Miremadi and Inga Timmerman sit down with Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Director of Faculty Professional Development at Georgia Tech, author of Agile Faculty and Unraveling Faculty Burnout. Rebecca opens up about her own journey through academia from financial stress and student loan regret, to finding stability through consulting work and charging her worth.
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