When I met my friends and tell them I've started working in SMU, their initial response would inevitably be "you're now a lecturer?" or "what are you teaching there?". After I tell them what I really did, they would go "oh" and then next question would then be "have you considered teaching or become a lecturer"?"
Well, I've thought about it and have explored but the unfortunate reality is that it takes an awful long time to get a doctorate and embark on an academic career (to become faculty and get tenure), so my "shelf-life" in the university's perspective would be fairly short before retirement.
However, there is another route that I could use to become a "pseudo-academic" faculty member, which is to write and publish papers. Not for the aim of becoming a true faculty, but to share what I've learnt since I started working to the academic world.
From what I gathered, writing papers is not for the faint-hearted, it requires a fair amount of time to conduct research, write them and look for a suitable publishing agency to accept the paper.
Considering that I have quite a fair bit of experience in the areas of strategic planning, project management, change management, futures and foresight, there should be some scope and a suitable niche that I can find interesting stuff to write about.
No harm trying right?
