I Moved to a South Pacific Island to Transition From Academia to the Business World

This is the sixth and final article of a series of articles on my adventures and misadventures from my way-too-long 24 years in academia. See the first article here.

Background

My five-and-a-half-year postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) came to an end when my first ex-wife Shirley (name changed for privacy) completed her PhD at UCB. At that point I had an offer to move into a limited-term research position at Lawrence Livermore National…