Life After School podcast

Additional resource: Here’s where you can read more about the book Life is in the Transitions. And you can check out my book notes here. Podcast highlights: If you are caught up between choices, you might be tempted to dwell on what’s comfortable and familiar rather than do what’s promising and life-changing. Because change, most Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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. Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more