A friend of mine just pointed out the website for Vocation Vacations. This is a company that lets you experience the job you’ve always dreamed about doing. For two days you get to meet and shadow the person who has your dream job. Possibilities include:
Be an animal trainer
Be an ecology tour boat captain
Be a fashion
One of my favorite new tools is making Lists of 100. I first wrote one while working with a personal coach who could tell I had lost my way a bit and needed a boost in confidence. She had me make a list of Suzanne’s 100 Gifts. The only rule, she said, was that if
I’ve been reading about different models of change and wanted to share the first of two posts on this topic, especially with so many people in transition. I believe knowing where you are situated in a change cycle can bring comfort and allow you to fully embrace each chapter, both the positive and more challenging
This is the title of a chapter in Jon Kabot-Zinn’s book Wherever You Go There You Are. In it, he tells the story of Buckminster Fuller who was going to take his life but instead decided to live as if he had taken his life, thereby freeing himself from worrying about how things worked out
Roadtrip Nation is a show on PBS that has college students traveling across the country in a bright green RV interviewing successful people about their careers and how they got where they are today. The tagline for the show is “define your own road in life.” I showed this to my students on Wednesday with
Every Friday night, I have a date with my yoga mat at my favorite yoga class. It’s a great way to relieve the stress from the work week and start fresh and rejuvenated for the weekend. I’ve been doing yoga on and off for about six years, but my Friday night class has been a
Now that I’m teaching a career development class, I’m on the look out for engaging, valuable exercises to do with students to help them find their career path. This one was suggested to me by a friend who is studying at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service and learned it there.
When you are doing a
On a recent episode of 30 Rock, NBC’s hit sitcom written by Tina Fey, the show featured a sub-plot about four new male interns: recent college graduates who formerly worked on Wall Street and now left without a job. Overly qualified and full of frat boy sensibilities, the interns persuade the character, Tracy Jordan, into partying with them every night.
If you’re the sort of person who has many different interests and feels like you’ll never find one satisfying career path, I recently read a book called “Refuse to Choose!” by Barbara Sher [1] that says you might be what she calls a “Scanner”, someone who has “[i]ntense curiousity about numerous unrelated subjects …
This is the name of a book I am reading and have assigned to the career development course I am teaching this semester to undergraduates. The author Patrick Combs writes, “Doing what you enjoy propels you to success. How it propels you is simple. Success in any endeavor takes a lot of effort, and the
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