The Path Not Taken

Ever wonder how your career (and life!) could have turned out differently if you had picked that PhD project in London instead, or gone into patient advocacy rather than a postdoc? What different lives could you have lived? With our new book "The Professor, the Pipette & the Path Not Taken", you can explore the alternative careers that may have opened up for you.

With more than 250 different pathways and 10 unique endings, this unique branching and converging storyline allows you to choose the pathway you take through science and life. With fantastical realism you can experience the impact your choices have. Does it actually change your life if your high school grades weren't so good? Do you fall behind by taking on a pharma job after your Masters rather than doing a PhD? How bad would it actually be to fudge the results a little for a paper? Would that Start-up idea have actually worked?

A dry comedy for established academics and a career guide for budding scientists, "The Path Not Taken" by Adrian Liston and James Dooley draws on lifetimes of experience for funny, honest, and surprisingly realistic look at what it really means to build a life in science. Out now!