Hi, OSU Career Beavers blog readers. It’s Finals Week of spring term 2012, and I’ve been writing to you all year about my changeable and wavy career path. I’ve taken many roads! Since graduating with my undergraduate degree, I’ve been an actor, a waiter, a receptionist, a creative writer, a college composition instructor, a gas [...]
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Confessions of a Career Changer: My Wavy Path Forward
Monday, June 11th, 2012Confessions of a Career Changer: The Return to School
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012Week 9, can you believe it?? The Career Changer is back to tell the penultimate episode of her wavy career path, a career path that continues on in this moment, as I sit here at my desk in Career Services at OSU. But cutting right to it, when I left off last time, I was [...]
Confessions of a Career Changer: Always Learning
Monday, April 30th, 2012Welcome to week five!!! The Career Fair last week was a huge success, and we’re inching closer and closer to the end of this academic year. As we do, I’m inching closer to the end of my story of a Career Changer. Or maybe not the end, but I’m definitely inching closer to my present [...]
Confessions of a Career Changer: MFA to Find Your Passion
Monday, April 16th, 2012Welcome back, everyone! Can you believe that we are already in the third week of spring term? Hope your courses are going really well, and you’re enjoying warmer, sunnier weather every day. So, I’m the Career Changer, Jessica, and I’ve been writing all year about my wavy career path to illustrate that the straight path [...]
Confessions of a Career Changer: Teacher, Teacher!
Monday, March 12th, 2012Can you believe it is week ten? This term has flown by for me; I wonder if it has for you too. Terms didn’t fly by like this in my previous graduate degree. We were on semesters! Sixteen weeks to delve deep into subject matter or get tired of subject matter that no longer interested [...]
Confessions of a Career Changer: What do you love?
Monday, February 27th, 2012Career Changer, Jessica, here, ready with another episode in the tale of my wavy career path. Last episode, I was in Colorado, working at the Gifts & Gas, when I decided I would go to graduate school. I made this decision for a couple of reasons, some good and some not so good. First, as [...]
Confessions of a Career Changer: Back to the City Grind…
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Hello!! Jessica, the Career Changer here, and I left off last time with my first job experience as an actor in the mountains of Colorado. At the end of that summer in 2004, after some traveling and visiting with family and friends, I returned to New York City. I quickly found a job back in [...]
Confessions of a Career Changer: Summer camp as a job? Yes, please!
Monday, January 16th, 2012Remember me? I’m Jessica, the Career Changer, telling you the story of my wavy career path. Before the winter break, I wrote about working at a pretty fancy New York City restaurant. I was let go from that particular restaurant because of new management, and I soon got a job at a café as a [...]
