How did you go about getting an industry job? I am in a similar position (well, mid-PhD) and have felt increasingly interested in leaving academia, but I'm not really sure how to taskify doing so. I can see where I might apply for jobs but it's not clear to me how to look for summer jobs, specifically. Should I just go on job websites and search for "summer," or some similar tactic?
My university has an active online jobs board, and I've seen a lot of positions posted as summer internships for graduate students. If yours has similar career resources, you could try that, or try talking to the career office personally about it.
There was some support for the idea of starting an advice repository for grad students much in the same tradition as the Boring Advice Repository and the Solved Problems Repository started earlier by Qiaochu_Yuan. So here goes.
Please share any advice, boring or otherwise, for succeeding at grad school. I realize that succeeding might mean different things to different people, but I believe most people largely agree with what it means in this context. Feel free to elaborate on what you believe it should mean, if you have views on the subject.
I am a theoretical physics grad student, so I'm personally more interested in advice for mathy disciplines (i.e. physics, math, CS), and I also suspect that there are many grad students from these disciplines on LessWrong; but advice for any discipline is welcome as well.
Advice is welcome from anyone, but please do mention your background for providing the advice so that people can weight the advice accordingly. For example, I would be more be open to listening to advice from someone who has completed a very successful PhD, than from someone who has simply interacted with a lot of grad students but has never been to grad school.
Also, feel free to link to advice from other sources, and maybe quote the most useful parts in what you read. Remember, this is meant to be a repository, so that people can come and find the advice, so don't worry if it seems to be something most people would've already read or known.
Thanks!