once you have a doctorate and some publications, it probably won’t be hard to persuade a professor to offer you an honorary (unpaid) position which gives you an institutional affiliation, library access, and maybe even a desk. Then you can go ahead with freelancing, without most of the disadvantages you cite.
Huh. That’s a fascinating idea, one which had never occurred to me. I’ll have to give this suggestion serious consideration.
Ron Gross’s The Independent Scholar’s Handbook has lots of ideas like this. A lot of the details in it won’t be too useful, since it is mostly about history and the humanities, but quite a bit will be. It is also a bit old to have some more recent stuff, since there was almost no internet in 1993.
Huh. That’s a fascinating idea, one which had never occurred to me. I’ll have to give this suggestion serious consideration.
Ron Gross’s The Independent Scholar’s Handbook has lots of ideas like this. A lot of the details in it won’t be too useful, since it is mostly about history and the humanities, but quite a bit will be. It is also a bit old to have some more recent stuff, since there was almost no internet in 1993.
Or become a visiting professor in which you teach one or two courses a year in return for modest pay, affiliation and library access.