I started my career in higher education, then went to work as a contractor for the U.S. federal government after receiving a Ph.D. I now do both, work as a contractor and teach at a university. It keeps me motivated in both areas.

Hello

I went for a businees carrer to Phd doctoral studies.

The experience is important the problem was the professors were too theorical. my thesis were practical and real no too many theories

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Ingrid

It is very possible, especially in the field of thesis work

Dear Dmytro

Let me start by saying that I srongly espouse your idea of the concept of Life Long Learning. Actually, we all learn as long as we live. It is often the case that

the transition from academic to business career is a bit dificult. First, what we learn most in our academic career is theoretical, as Ingrid stresses. Second, a professional career requires skils that normally are aquired by doing. Third, in our academic career, those skils are no taught just because academic careers revolve around the acquisition of, say, theoretical knowledge. It it because of these that when one passes from the academic to the professional career, most, if not all professions require a supervised practical work. This is the case, for example, of physicians, lawyers, clinical psychologist, and so forth. It is often the case that brilliant students in the academia are only reasonable if not mediocre professionals. So, one thing is to acquire theoretical knowledge and another, quite different thing in to apply it in an business career. In other words, there is a big gap between theoretical intelligence and practical intelligence.

KInd regards,

Orlando

I went the other way, going from a career in law enforcement and government to teaching. The key is to find out what matters in your new profession. What is considered to be important. Then use your acquired skills to achieve those things.

I started my career in higher education, then went to work as a contractor for the U.S. federal government after receiving a Ph.D. I now do both, work as a contractor and teach at a university. It keeps me motivated in both areas.

Dear Stuart H. Weinstein! Thanks for your reply! A great way to complement the two activities! In my personal practice, I view my work as a teacher at a number of universities rather as a hobby. But I first got 15 years of practical work experience, including 10 years of experience as a C-level manager in a number of companies, including international (like CMO, CTO, CIO), as well as some work experience as a business consultant and founder of my own consulting company. Moreover, I defended my doctoral dissertation as an active assistant professor at the university. And I also combine business consulting and teaching activities in bachelor's, master's and supplementary education programs in both classical and technical universities.

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it is very possible so far as you have some entrepreneurial skills.

If your question is a theoretical one and not related to your own position, then my answer would be the following. A marketing matrix, product-market matrix by Igor Ansoff, can be adapted to this situation with the horizontal axis being “existing customers” and ”new customers”, and the vertical axis being “existing expertise, skills and knowledge” and “new skills and knowledge”. This makes four fields.

Usually moving from field 1 to field 4, from the field “existing skills and existing customers” to “new skills and new customers” is practically impossible. What can be more successful is to move from field 1 to field 2, using existing skills expanding from existing customers to new customers. Or moving from field 1 to field 3, using new skills for existing customers, i.e. a new service for existing customers.

In the theoretical situation where a 100% academic wants to do something completely new, what could work is using teaching skills in a business situation for example becoming a trainer OR doing something new for students such as becoming a student counsellor after doing therapeutic training.

in the first example further progress is possible after a few years of doing business trainings, one could become a human resource professional in businesses. In the second example further progress is possible when after a few years of experience as a student counsellor one could start a therapy or counselling practice in society for adolescents and adults.

I hope this is helpful.

If done early on, say five to ten years since graduation, it is very possible and advantageous.

Some degrees such as Executive DBA requires 3 to 5 years of senior management or executive experience so keeping that in mind, all is relevant. It is about the passion to learn not necessarily through academia.

"I went the other way, going from a career in law enforcement and government to teaching. The key is to find out what matters in your new profession"= I think that psychological trends do definitely differ from one professional job to that of the other... Having joined in a coeducational school as a graduate teacher, what we have learned has no bearance and relativity to the school's syllabus and students learning, their aim and object is to have A+ grade and enter into next professional development course for lavish earnings and accumulate assets in India and settle in other countries... When I switched over to L&O, CRIME CONTROL PROFESSIONAL DEPARTMENT, RPF, RAILWAY PROTECTION FORCE,AN ARMED FORCE OF THE UOI, barring a few exceptions, the age old BRITISH EMBODIED LAWS, the preamble itself designed to suit to THEIR... GOVERNMENT... Working and nonelse...POLICE AN INSTRUMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT... THIS TRANSMISSION OF THOUGHT AND ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIFORM POLICE SERVICE,WE HAVE SEVERAL NUMBER OF POLICE/SECURITY FORCES WHICH ARE DESIGNED WITH DEFINED RULES by encircling the top to bottom ranks just do their job assigned WORK AND JOB and nothing else even if you have some humanitarian ground towards the innocent people, say, unknowingly or due to insanity SOMEONE keep the government property, and it turned as stolen... The procedure and after the incident may change the course of discharge of the case IN COURT OF LAW... The subordinate official pleadings to let the accused be set free as they came to know about mentally retardation and missing FROM HOME report of that person...BUT, THE TOP OFFICIAL INSTEAD INSISTED TO FILE FIR, and the subordinate official with a open curse to his BOSS, he will face the consequences of making a wrong case, psychological trends , and in later YEARS, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, the official's son , born , is mentally abnormal and then.... History continues in the police forces....

My ARTICLE, SUBMITTED to NATIONAL POLICE ACADEMY, HYDERABAD, during 1980s or so for PM MEDAL...ON THE SUBJECT... " POLICE...AN INSTRUMENT OR SERVICE ORIENTATION FORCE TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.... " May be still UNANSWERED....

I moved from private work to teaching at the university, I can take advantage of the field experience in the work to be employed in teaching

academic work is tedious and the pay is just nothing to write home about so many people prefer to working for themselves as a private business owner