ABSTRACT
Social contacts as well as networks are important and necessary in order to position oneself in the academia. Academics gain career capital and symbolic value along their career and they use it differently to gain recognition and to develop. In this paper, I reflect upon my own experiences as a relocated women researcher moving from Finland to the United States of America. The methodological approach for this paper is autoethnography. Using this approach, I seek to describe and systematically analyse my personal experiences and consider my attempts to build both vertical and horizontal career capital in a new academic environment.
