Once Again, What’s Next?

Caroline Walsh
4 min readJan 8, 2024
Photo by Anton Repponen on Unsplash

It’s time to continue to ask “what’s next” and explore it during the moments when I am avoiding finishing my dissertation. I had four years in my PhD to slow down, learn, think deeply, and figure out what is really next. I can’t say I have an exact answer, but I know what I value and enjoy and have gotten feedback about what is useful.

My first “what’s next” was graduating college during the financial crisis with a…

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Caroline Walsh

Former CIA Analyst and Coastie. PhD Student. Author of Fairly Smooth Operator: My life occasionally at the tip of the spear, available now!