In this conversation, I sat down with John, Director of Studies in Computer Science at the University of Bath, to talk about how people find themselves in academia.John comes from a family of teachers, but never set out to follow that path. And yet, as he put it:“the next step of my life was always presented to me very intuitively, but at the very last moment.”We talked about the WHAT and the HOW of entering academia, the 3 paths that you can take, and the mindset it takes to get there.