AOL.com Video - How to Leave a Secure Job and Change a Career

VIDEO:Business

How to Leave a Secure Job and Change a Career

Description:In Chapter 9 of 19 in her 2011 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, Stacie Grossman Bloom shares how working in a protective university science environment as a post doc, Grossman Bloom finds the greatest challenge leaving the security of the academic culture for outside work. By building a strong working relationship with her boss, Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard, she is able to test an outside opportunity by interning twice a week at Nature Medicine. (1:39)

Source: Capture Your Flag

Tags: How to Leave a Secure Job and Change a Career , becoming a scientist , moving into field research , transitioning from bench science