Yeesh -- I just read the referenced blog post on honesty. Apparently she includes her master's thesis on her résumé even though she never actually finished her MA. Sorry, but unless it was defended and approved, it's not a master's thesis -- just a lengthy piece of writing apparently done as a hobby.
Also, apparently if one spends a year unemployed one should put down "project manager" for that period on the résumé, since after all one is one's own ongoing project.
I wish she weren't self-employed just so I could see her fired for résumé fraud.
I had never seen her blog before today, when it was linked from marginalrevtion.
I thought it was interesting, because well... I did have a job offer that I didn't like back in the 2001 slump, and I turned it down to go to grad school. And grad school was a rotten experience, my advisor was awful, I ended up taking a semester off afterwards, and then spent a long time in a depressing, demoralizing, and soul-sucking job hunt, but eventually I got a job, and it ended up being much better than what I would have been working on straight out of school.
Sure, but that's an argument for not going _straight_ to grad school. Or not going to grad school for the wrong reasons.
Personally, I don't value the educational advice of someone whose by-line is "The Brazen Careerist." She and I will likely never see eye to eye about the purpose or worth of graduate school.
Personally, I don't value the educational advice of someone whose by-line is "The Brazen Careerist."
Ha! All too true.
I realize you have a deep problem with the messenger, but as I read her background, she certainly wasn't a "brazen careerist" forever, but she's one now. I wonder how her professional beach volleyball self or even her undergraduate self would get along with her current self.
If someone loves the law, loves medicine, or loves the academy, then nothing will stop them from going to law school, medical school, or graduate school. There are good reasons to go to graduate school in any field. But there are also bad reasons. And there are right ways and wrong ways.
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Also, apparently if one spends a year unemployed one should put down "project manager" for that period on the résumé, since after all one is one's own ongoing project.
I wish she weren't self-employed just so I could see her fired for résumé fraud.
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I thought it was interesting, because well... I did have a job offer that I didn't like back in the 2001 slump, and I turned it down to go to grad school. And grad school was a rotten experience, my advisor was awful, I ended up taking a semester off afterwards, and then spent a long time in a depressing, demoralizing, and soul-sucking job hunt, but eventually I got a job, and it ended up being much better than what I would have been working on straight out of school.
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Personally, I don't value the educational advice of someone whose by-line is "The Brazen Careerist." She and I will likely never see eye to eye about the purpose or worth of graduate school.
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Ha! All too true.
I realize you have a deep problem with the messenger, but as I read her background, she certainly wasn't a "brazen careerist" forever, but she's one now. I wonder how her professional beach volleyball self or even her undergraduate self would get along with her current self.
If someone loves the law, loves medicine, or loves the academy, then nothing will stop them from going to law school, medical school, or graduate school. There are good reasons to go to graduate school in any field. But there are also bad reasons. And there are right ways and wrong ways.
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