Category: Life After School podcast
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References: Why is Pluto no longer a planet? — Library of Congress How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation — BuzzFeed News Podcast highlights: Most of us thought that simply acquiring knowledge alone makes us superior at work and in life because, like we’re always told, a good education gives us more flexibility in life. In…
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References: Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume Explains Why He’s The Renaissance Man For the Job — Gizmodo This Is Exactly What Hiring Managers & Recruiters Look For When Scanning Resumes — Glassdoor History of The Resume — BeBusinessEd.com <additional reading> Why bother having a resume? — Seth’s blog Podcast highlights: Because at the end of the…
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It’s one thing to wait patiently to be hired. Another when after being hired, you realize that you are underpaid. But sometimes, we think we deserve more just because of our diploma. And that’s another story.
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Podcast highlights: When you tell people that you are a professional, what that means is that the school prepared you for work that requires particular knowledge and skills. And you’ve spent so many hours to be a master of it. Being a professional also means that you are earning from that professional work you say…
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Podcast highlights: And who are you really? Mostly, we label whatever we can label because labeling helps us process whatever is going on around us without having to spend so much energy in the future. “…society compels each of us to conform to certain narrow expectations in order to succeed in school, our career, and…
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School’s industrial, scaled-up, measurable structure means that fear must be used to keep the masses in line. There’s no other way to get hundreds or thousands of kids to comply, to process that many bodies, en masse, without simultaneous coordination. And the flip side of this fear and conformity must be that passion will be…
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Podcast highlights: If you are one of the people who come up with a lot of excuses even if a question is already burning up within you is that most probably, fear keeps you from doing so. You are simply afraid to be judged in all sorts of ways. You are afraid because people might…