When Amy Fluet’s future husband accepted a postdoctoral position at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997, she gave up her own postdoc studying the retinoic acid signaling pathway in zebrafish at Johns Hopkins University to follow him. The rewards of a scientific career just didn’t seem to outweigh the “struggles that were coming,” she says—like the administrative responsibilities of becoming faculty and trying to balance science and family. It was the excuse she needed to try her hand at a new career, says Fluet.
While she found some work in a Boulder laboratory studying Alzheimer’s disease, Fluet also started doing some freelance science writing and editing. “I was enjoying the writing process and editing process much more than trying to do the science,” Fluet recalls. Within 2 years, she left the lab to focus solely on this new pursuit. Now settled in Wyoming where her husband works as ...
