Academic Toxic Positivity, 300% Postdoc Salary, & the World of UXR w/ Ashley Ruba, PhD

Ashley Ruba, PhD is a formerly NIH-funded Research Fellow who now has a career in User Experience Research at Meta Reality Labs.
Ashley joins the podcast to talk about how toxic positivity in conversations about the academic job market is ultimately unhelpful, how she landed a UXR job making over three times her postdoc salary, and why grad students (particularly in the social sciences) should consider UXR as a potential career option.
This is a great episode for folks who need to hear the inside story of just how competitive the academic job market is and for anyone who is interested in the UXR space.
Follow Ashley on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyruba/
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