{"product_id":"ten-lives-what-academic-careers-actually-look-like-paperback","title":"Ten Lives: What Academic Careers Actually Look Like - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNabil Zary\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat nobody honestly explains during your PhD or postdoc is this: there isn't one \"real\" academic career. There are dozens-and most of them are invisible.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou've absorbed a hidden curriculum without realizing it. Research beats teaching. Permanent beats temporary. Staying means success; leaving means failure. These unspoken rules shape how you evaluate your options and judge yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut some of the most fulfilled academics have never held a tenure-track position. And some of the most miserable have achieved everything the standard path promised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem isn't you. The problem is the map you were given.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a different map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen fictional early-career academics. Ten different paths through the academic landscape. Set across seven Moroccan cities-because specific places make universal patterns vivid-and grounded in real conversations with hundreds of researchers, educators, and clinicians worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy fiction? Because invented characters can be honest in ways real people, with reputations to protect, cannot. The characters are fictional. The patterns are real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, you'll meet: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe teaching-focused academic who finds her deepest meaning in work that the metrics don't reward, and how she made peace with that trade-off.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe clinician-educator building simulation programs between emergency shifts in a role that doesn't officially exist; and why he wouldn't trade it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe researcher watching his grant expire while questioning what discovery even means, and the simple framework that clarified his next move.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe scientist who left academia for EdTech and discovered her skills traveled further than she imagined, and what she lost in the exchange.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe policy-linked researcher translating evidence into legislation on timelines no journal comprehends-and the identity tension that never fully resolves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book won't tell you which path is right for you. That would be a lie-I don't know your values, your constraints, or your history. Only you can discover what fits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut I can make the invisible paths visible. I can help you feel what different academic lives are actually like-not the CV version, but the Tuesday afternoon version-so you can try them on before you stake years on a direction you've never truly seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author: \u003c\/strong\u003e Nabil Zary has built an academic career across four countries and three continents-from Morocco to Sweden to Singapore to Dubai. Now Professor of Medical Education, he wrote this book after watching hundreds of early-career academics struggle with the same question he once faced: \u003cem\u003eWhat kind of scholar do I actually want to become?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTen Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book in the \u003cem\u003eDesigning Your Academic Life\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy. Designed for use in faculty development programs and postdoc career workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you're a PhD student wondering what comes next... a postdoc on your third temporary contract... a clinician with teaching work no one recognizes... someone sensing there's more to the landscape than you've been shown...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou're not alone. And you're not broken for wanting something different.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 27, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43154243485759,"sku":"9789699893520","price":32.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/SV5WdIyloa9789699893520.webp?v=1776955064","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/ten-lives-what-academic-careers-actually-look-like-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}