forwards a bit by distilling some of what I’ve learned by working with her through my postdoc years and into early faculty years.

Starting Points
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This essay is considerably more personal than any other professional writing I have done to date. Since the guidance I am providing is based in my own personal experiences, I’d like to acknowledge that this will not be a cure-all or universal solution. I am starting from a place I call “So Far, So Good”: this is what works for me, but it doesn’t mean that my choices are “correct”, or that they should be your choices, or even that these choices will be good forever. They are intended to be illustrative rather than definitive. Like I said: so far, so good.

I would also be remiss not to acknowledge that I am speaking from privilege, in a variety of ways: one being that I am a decade out of grad school and several years out of being a postdoc, so I have achieved some form of success: I am still in astronomy, I have a position that pays me to be in astronomy, and people ask me to give talks. I have other 