I'm pretty much in the same boat now, but when I left grad school, I had shaken off the loyal reader posture (Ivy grad school replaced my working class intellectual elite identity and confidence needs) but I was very, very, very narrowly focused on my work.
I'm pretty much in the same boat now, but when I left grad school, I had shaken off the loyal reader posture (Ivy grad school replaced my working class intellectual elite identity and confidence needs) but I was very, very, very narrowly focused on my work.
The parallels in our experiences seem fairly robust.