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@geekygirldawn This is something I had to unlearn… when leaving academia and going into private-sector jobs. The first job I had after getting my Ph. D in chemistry made it quite clear that, after a fairly short ramp-up period, you had to know *everything* about your projects. *Everything*. Asking questions to other people was, after a few months, a sign that you did not know what you needed to know. Losing collaborators? You need to pick up everything they knew, quickly. Of course, not all academic research positions are like this, but….sheesh. Transitioning to a software development career later was almost ridiculously easy by comparison.