The Five Doors of the Second Half

Late-career decision-architecture simulation for Director+/VP/Partner/Founder professionals contemplating an academic or teaching transition. Reframes academia from a binary go/no-go into a five-door selection problem (Tenure-Track Research, Clinical/Practice, Board + Adjunct Hybrid, AMP/Exec-Ed Visiting, Build Your Own). Across five rounds, the protagonist disambiguates the underlying want from the surface request, ranks the doors by appeal, runs honest 5-year financial math, pre-commits to a 90-day pilot, and locks the anti-drift decision sequence.