Archive for the ‘ Post-College ’ Category

Extremely Useful Guidance For The Newly Salaried

This exquisitely informative article in the NY Times will help to lessen the shocking dose of reality that might otherwise paralyze the newly graduated twenty-somethings who’ve recently been unleashed on the job market. It sucks to have finally figured out the bureaucratic red tape that is student loans and financial aid, and now you’ve got [ READ MORE ]

Rethinking Grad School

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Eph Teaching Diary

For any recent college graduates who might be heading off to their first year of teaching, this post on Ephblog lays out with severe honesty what a first-year teacher might expect. I’m not a teacher, but I’ve learned from scores of them, and I found it interesting to read about what it’s like for a [ READ MORE ]

Financial Education

Education doesn’t stop, even after you’ve finished that last final exam and have turned in that last paper. Fruit flies have an average life span of only 37 days, their brains are minuscule, and they still have to endure learning experiences every damn day. So, comparatively speaking, humans have thousands more learning opportunities in our [ READ MORE ]

Temp Job Learning Experience

This may have been particular only to my high school career, but from what I’ve seen, I think most kids leave high school with the feeling that they are destined to be amazing and have only to be unleashed on the world and this innate stupendousness will become apparent. I grew up in a small, [ READ MORE ]

Volunteer to Gain Work Experience (Work for Free to Get a Job)

Catch-22 is safely ensconced in my top ten books list; it’s been there since I read it over a decade ago and I can’t imagine that it will ever be demoted. It’s such a perfect, perfect description of being caught in some bureaucratic, red-tape moment wherein the powers that be are unmoved by your pointing [ READ MORE ]

Post-College Pain Assessment

Allie Osmar has a great post up on her blog listing the good and bad bits associated with her first year out of college and in the corporate world. She uses the same pain assessment graphic hospitals use when trying to get a straight answer out of little kids regarding the level of pain they’re [ READ MORE ]