Mid-Career Academics: What I Have Learned or Wish I Had Known

Abstract

As I agreed on contributing a piece to this series of which Tamer is in charge, I read all the preceding articles to get inspiration. The impression I got was, "gosh, I wish I had known all this back in my mid-career days and even these days!" For example, I did place students on my collaborative projects, but would have made faster progress in some projects if I had insisted on having weekly meetings. Or I should have considered a more detailed list of factors before committing to a task of considerable amount of work.