You love what you do but hate where you do it.
You edit writing, supervise research, and deliver constructive feedback every day. Now you can get paid well for it—while living and working wherever and whenever you want.
If academia has left you burned out, fed up, and underpaid, you’re not alone—the system is broken.
You love the teaching and research, but you’re exhausted by senseless paper rejections, toxic colleagues, and doing endless unpaid labor disguised as “service.”
🛑 Stop dreading Mondays!
Let me show you what else you can do with the skills you already have.
👇 Get my free podcast to find out how to use your academic skills in a context you control.
🤔 Here’s what academia doesn’t want you to know:
Every time you edit a colleague’s paper, mentor a graduate student, or review a manuscript—that’s work that professional editors and coaches get paid real money to do!
✅ Dissertation copy edit? 50k words x 4 cents per word = $2,000
✅ Academic book coaching? 12 sessions over 6 months = $2,000-$3,000
✅ Job market workshop? $100 per person x 10 people (minimum) = $1,000
Your university keeps piling on the work (without giving you a raise). Why not use your skills in a business that you control and that pays you for your time, knowledge, and effort? Without burnout.
Most academics think they could never run a business.
⛔ Wrong. You already have the skills. You just need to know how to package and price them.
That’s exactly what my free podcast walks you through—no business experience required.
In my free podcast on academic editing and coaching, you’ll discover:
☑️ What academic editing and coaching involve—and whether they’re right for you
☑️ How to land your first paying client, even if you’ve never run a business
☑️ How to package and price the skills you already have
And here’s what’s possible when you do:
⭐ Students have landed their first clients within the first two weeks of my program
⭐ Some have been fully booked within 60–90 days
⭐ Over 100 scholars just like you are already reclaiming their joy by building businesses they love
👇 Get the podcast to find out if this is your next move
🎓 100+ scholars, educators, and recent PhDs have already traded burnout for a business they love.
Meet Paulina S. Cossette, PhD
CEO, ACADIA EDITING SERVICES
I was a tenure-track political science professor who loved teaching and research but got fed up with incompetent administrators, plagiarizing students, and working 7 days a week. In 2019, after 12 years in academia, I stopped waiting for things to get better and left. My family and I moved to Maine, bought our dream home, and now I work 25 hours a week and make double what I did as an assistant professor.
Still on the fence? No problem. The podcast exists to help you figure out what’s next. Listen to some episodes, decide for yourself, and if it’s not for you—no hard feelings.
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