Posts Tagged ‘ job ’

Not A Real Life, Not A Real Job

For the love of all things holy, please do not aspire to this as it is not a valid career choice: Virtual Pet Owners Now Hiring Virtual Pet Sitters[ READ MORE ]

Making the Summer Internship Work for You

There seems to be some theory in the offing that insists there's a direct correlation between one's future trajectory and one's summer break activities. [ READ MORE ]

My PhD Is A Waste Of Time? F&*#!!!

The article about PhDs in a recent issue makes me close my eyes, cover my ears, and yell with loud immaturity, “La la la la la! I can’t hear you! Shut up shut up shut up shut up!”[ READ MORE ]

How To Pull Yourself Up After Everything Falls Apart

If you’re a lucky bastard, this will only happen to you once or twice in your life: Everything will fall apart, either through your own doing or just because when the universe flings poo, it has to land somewhere and this time it hit you[ READ MORE ]

Teaching Work Values to Children of Wealth

No can expect those young adults to have a graceful trajectory; they’ll smack the pavement a few times before they figure out the mechanisms of reality. [ READ MORE ]

Life After Grad School: Getting From A to B

Graduate school, should it have escaped everyone’s notice, prepares no one for reality. One learns insanely vast oceans of information, but this just means that the M-Something or the PhD in question just knows a lot of stuff[ READ MORE ]

Gapping the New Year

I would suggest, to the college students (or recent college graduates who still haven’t found a job),that taking a gap year might not be a bad idea. [ READ MORE ]