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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fuindordm" data-source="post: 2650721" data-attributes="member: 5435">So here's the story:I've been a research astrophysicist for five years, and have finally accepted the fact that I detest research. This wasn't always the case, but between a couple of bad work experiences, having a daughter (who is 1000 times more interesting and fun), and perhaps my own personality evolving, I can't see myself doing it anymore.  I always thought I wanted to be a professor, as I love teaching, but that's a more than a full-time job and I have yet to meet a successful research professor that hasn't damaged their family life severely in the process of getting tenure.So, I've decided to make a break from academia altogether and look for jobs elsewhere... perhaps in industry or finance as a scientific/analytic programmer, or perhaps by cobbling together teaching and work as a freelance writer/editor.   Editing (in particular scientific editing) greatly attracts me, and I think it's something I could do full time.  I've edited three books professionally in the past with good feedback from the authors and published several articles, so I'm not totally inexperienced--I really feel like I am good atthis and will enjoy doing it.There are a lot of people on ENworld, and I'm hoping that I can get some advice from people on the following points:1) Does anyone have a successful editor's CV that they could show me, so I see what one looks like?  I've already created one, but it's based on my academic CVs and I'd feel more comfortable sending it out if I could find a sample of the kinds of CVs that publishers are used to receiving.2) Does anyone working for a publishing company have an idea of what the market is like?  Are full-time copy editors getting hired these days, or is the work getting farmed out to freelancers?  What's the work environment like?3) Does anyone working as a writer/editor have any other useful advice for me that I might not even be aware of? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />4) Last but not least, has anyone else suffered a career crisis like this?  It took me a long time to admit to myself that the job I've been doing for years, and that I always envisioned myself doing growing up,  had become a source of stress and depression.  One can love the subject but hate the process, and that's what's happened to me.  The idea of starting to do something very different is at the same time saddening, inspiring and absolutely terrifying.Thanks in advance,Ben</blockquote>

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