I have had some pretty unglamorous jobs.  Aside from the usual telephone tech support gig, where people would call and shriek about how I had broken their computer, I worked in commercial fisheries and on a farm (essentially rolling around in the mud for $7/hour). My personal safety was always an issue on the riverbank (I was less afraid of the ( Read more... )

I just got an email from one of our recent graduates (she did a M.S. then fled the Ph.D. program) who ran off to the big, bad corporate world that read:

"Compared to graduate school the corporate world is downright warm and fuzzy," and provided real life examples to illustrate this.

I knew it all along...

Okay, I want to Do Something Different, so am looking for human resources / leadership / training / corporate culture / etc. internships.  There are no internships currently listed on our professional organization's page, so I am having to get creative ( Read more... )