{"id":769,"date":"2007-09-04T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/09\/04\/what-caitlan-should-do-with-her-life\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T23:05:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T03:05:28","slug":"what-caitlan-should-do-with-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/769","title":{"rendered":"What Caitlan should do with her life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> A very public list of options for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/kk\/2007\/08\/28\/i-dont-know-what-i-want-to-do-with-my-life\/\">my niece<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022  Use the Oxford credential to land a position at a respected institution, starting as the assistant to a highly experienced leader \u2014 humble yourself to soak up every scrap of street smarts for the taking \u2014 do it as long as you can stand it, and then walk away with whatever new perspective you\u2019ve attained&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>\u2022  Earn a decent position with a progressive municipality or quasi-governmental agency as a lifestyle platform for high-level volunteerism \u2014 \u201ctake ownership\u201d of a huge challenge in the non-profit or charitable sector indirectly related to your job and use that opportunity to make something very significant happen in the community \u2014 pull up stakes and carry what you\u2019ve learned back to the academic environment \u2014 now you\u2019re ready to conduct seminal research in an area that actually affects the lives of people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022  Wager your impressive undergraduate degrees in a job search that\u2019s limited to companies with an outstanding corporate culture \u2014 do your homework and cull it down to only the leading-edge organizations \u2014 satisfy yourself that doing anything within the very best of management teams trumps practicing your specialty in a deficient business or institutional environment, and then you\u2019ll be prepared to investigate your next strategic career move&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022  Take a job with a publisher, polling firm, or media company to learn the communications industry from the inside \u2014 learn everything there is to know about niche-market service \u2014 job hop laterally until you\u2019re ready to devote your new knowledge and skill set to a specific area of personal interest as a writer, and then make the leap of faith&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022  Get into the best damn graduate program you can pull off, and then, regardless of your specific thesis parameters,  seek out the advice of mature scholars who have the most balanced heart flame you can discern \u2014 then you can begin thinking in earnest about what next you should do with your life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Meet your opportunities by being who you are. Don\u2019t sell your skills, but sell your aspirations\u2014 to learn everything you can about being part of a successful team. If that doesn\u2019t unlock a new chapter, you don\u2019t want to work for that organization anyway. The best recruiters understand that you \u201cdon\u2019t know jack\u201d at this stage. They want to invest in attitude and potential. Keep scratching until positive things happen. <strong>Good Luck, KK!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very public list of options for my niece: \u2022 Use the Oxford credential to land a position at a respected institution, starting as the assistant to a highly experienced leader \u2014 humble yourself to soak up every scrap of street smarts for the taking \u2014 do it as long as you can stand it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,75,18,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}