Burnout, Professional Reinvention, and Building Sustainable Career Paths
This is not just a story about career change. It’s a roadmap for redesigning work with sustainability, dignity, and autonomy at its core.
From Academia to Self-Employment (SEA interview)
New interview alert: I share how I moved from the academic world into self-employment, and how archaeology gave me the skills & mindset I now apply as a freelance mentor and entrepreneur.
I spent years uncovering ancient lives. The most important discovery was myself.
Hi, I’m Alexandra, a freelance archaeologist, professional mentor, and entrepreneur based in Vienna, originally from Romania.
I spent nearly 20 years in academia, none of them with a permanent position.
In almost 20 years of archaeological excavations, I have never discovered gold.
(Yes, real-life archaeology differs from Indiana Jones, but that's another story.)
This year, gold discovered me—and not just me, but the entire MOZAIC reciprocal mentoring program team from EMCC Romania—when it was awarded the highest accreditation achievement: GOLD LEVEL.