I am very very fortunate to have a permanent job in academia now, but there was some time post-PhD that was rather soul destroying and I really don’t want any other PhD student or ECR to go through that. Moving your whole life from city to city at a moment’s notice; having to

prepare teaching in your own time to be ready for the start of the semester; the anxiety that creeps in in the Spring when you know your contract is running out and other fixed-term teaching fellowships are going to be advertised and you can’t make any plans because you’re going

to spend ages honing each CV and cover letter and then prepping presentations, sometimes with a ridiculously short turnaround time; that this is the only time you will have to work on the research needed to progress your career, but instead you are giving your all to