[I put Claire Temple there because she is the only nurse on TV that I’ve seen that actually acts like a nurse. Like, she breaks scope of practice all the freaking time, and there was that little incident where she abandoned her patients without telling anyone, but in Daredevil S1E2, I was thoroughly convinced of Rosario Dawson’s nurse status. And that’s saying something, cause you all know I’m picky.]
Nursing publicity actually sucks (see chapter 21 of this textbook), so here are some fun facts to get you thinking in the right direction when you’re writing, reading, or otherwise applying your knowledge of the nursing profession in a creative way:
1. Nurses treat reaction to disease. Literally our job is to assess and treat the reaction a person has to a disease process, or what impact a disease has on a person physically (are they in pain? having trouble breathing? can’t walk?), mentally (does a disease process alter how they think, their quality of life?), emotionally (are they devastated by a prognosis? depressed by their inability to act as they used to?) and spiritually (what is their relationship with their belief system? has it changed in response to disease? how do they feel about that?). In contrast, a physician treats the disease itself.
2.Nurses have a system of diagnosis and care planning that is unique from that of a physician. Medical diagnosis of course is taken into consideration when treating a patient and planning care, but remember that we are treating a reaction to a disease process, and so our diagnoses are those reactions. Some examples include:
Sleep deprivation
Impaired gas exchange (difficulty breathing)
Decreased cardiac output (less (or too little) blood getting out of the heart)
These are usually written as part of a larger “Diagnosis Statement” which goes something like this: “Impaired gas exchange related to bronchospasm as evidenced by expiratory wheezing, abnormal blood gases, patient statement of ‘I can’t breathe’ and medical diagnosis of acute asthma exacerbation.” Nurses then plan and carry out interventions to improve the patient’s condition. Often, this goal coincides with the physician’s plan of care, and a nurse can ask a physician for orders if they feel the patient needs something that requires such an order.
3.There are different “levels” of nursing. These are:
Nurse Aide (NA or UAP): 2 weeks-3 months of training. Nurse Aides carry out patient care activities such as bathing and dressing, they can measure patient intake and output, take vital signs (depending on facility), take blood sugars (depending on facility), remove IVs and Foley Catheters and do other duties as assigned by the Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse they work under. Must have passed either State Licensure or a facility-based training program.
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN): 1-1.5 years of training. These are starting to go out of style and mainly found either “grandfathered in” in hospital settings or working as supervisors in nursing homes. In addition to all things listed above, they can do a full assessment and basic nursing interventions, including placement of IVs an Foleys, pass (most) medication, collect samples for testing, take health histories, supervise Nurse Aides, and other duties as assigned by a Registered Nurse. LPNs must have taken and passed national licensure (NCLEX-PN in the USA).
Registered Nurse (RN): 2-4 years of training, usually with an accompanying associates’ or bachelors’ degree. Registered Nurses can do all of the above, as well as administer all medications, do full range of IV therapy, write and make plan of care for nursing diagnoses, follow ACLS protocol (without deviation), do nursing research and supervise LPNs and NAs. Training for RNs focuses a lot more on critical thinking and research skills. RNs must have taken and passed national licensure (the NCLEX-RN in the USA). This is generally what people think of when they think of a nurse.
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS): 6-8 years of training. CNSs are masters’ or doctoral prepared nurses who specialize in one area or population, usually in the inpatient hospital setting (though some specialties practice in community or mental health settings). They provide higher-level care in their specialty and are able to perform procedures outside an RN’s scope of practice. CNSs also teach, supervise and conduct nursing and medical research within their specialty. CNSs have either extremely limited or no prescriptive privilege (they can’t prescribe medication).
Nurse Practitioner (NP): 6-8 years of training (minimum Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree by 2030). NPs can often practice independently in a primary care capacity (varies by location), and have a broader scope of practice than a CNS. In a primary care capacity, they can prescribe medication, do office-level medical procedures and refer to specialists. NPs also do research, teach and supervise nurses in hospital and long-term acute care facilities.
4.Nurses are expected to question orders and advocate for their patients. We are the end-point of all orders and the last line of defense before an order hits a patient in a hospital setting. In the USA, a nurse is legally responsible for questioning orders and may choose to hold an ordered medication or intervention if they think it will harm the patient (we do have to immediately call the physician and ask for another order, but we can do it).
5.Nursing is applicable in extremely diverse fields that have nothing to do with clinical nursing care. For example, there are:
Forensic Nurses, who collect evidence from victims of crime
Nurse Advocates, who are practicing lawyers who also hold degrees in nursing
Nursing Informatics Specialists, who design computer systems and technology applicable to nurses and healthcare
Insurance Nurses, who work as liaisons between the insurance industries and patients
Nurse Administrators, who work the business end of healthcare
To increase visibility + earned media impressions for startup clients and established brands alike at the intersection of consumer lifestyle, food and technology. Current and past accounts of this team include retail disruptors like thredUP & Rent the Runway and innovative food clients like Plated and Graze.
Through creative storytelling and campaign creation, this position will be responsible for furnishing original strategies that successfully secure tier-one press results and originating and producing periodic creative concepts poised for virality.
Role Responsibilities & Outcomes
STRATEGY
Work in tandem with account lead to deliver long-term and monthly PR strategies that achieve client approval
Each PR strategy demonstrates an understanding of client goals & creative thinking (to achieve ownable moments for clients that have the potential for virality or original coverage that could not be achieved through mere seasonal/product angles alone)
Effectively collaborate with supporting team members to ensure client materials are furnished under deadline & the equivalent of the “100” emoji
Deliver both internal & client-facing insights with an eye that captures quantitative and qualitative results - acknowledging major wins, lessons learned, and moments of impact delivered by the team
Oversee junior team members to produce campaign recaps, monthly activity reports, and case studies that support new business endeavors
Work with manager to spot trends in team results and proactively suggest methods of improvement with regard to how results are both achieved as well as packaged & communicated back to clients
Contribute to new business as relevant client inquiries arise
Contribute to company as a whole through participating in brainstorms and working across teams to lend a hand or creative idea as required
MEDIA RELATIONS
Deliver in-depth top tier client coverage with an emphasis on digital and broadcast media with experience and relationships with both consumer and business media
Engineer & secure multiple pieces of press coverage for clients monthly, whether through announcements or evergreen storytelling.
Surface new storylines across top-tier relevant publications for clients.
Develop “beat” relationships with media, converting reporters into go-to contacts for the brands under your direction
MANAGEMENT
Lead strategist, driver & day-to-day contact for multiple clients
Expected to advise clients on short and long term strategy, managing expectations and appropriately setting goals, timelines and deliverables
Manage in all directions to make sure everything runs smoothly and on track (up to manager, down to junior team members, across to clients and fellow SGPR gang members)
Provide consistent guidance and advice to supporting team members
Share daily “Plan of Attack” with manager to align on priorities
Regroup weekly with manager to provide regular updates and tackle challenges
Keep Account Supervisor up to date on any client requests, challenges, high-level strategy recommendations or other details as necessary
Communicate professionally and personably with clients: Client-lead on accounts, expected to drive client meetings and work directly with clients & their partners regarding strategy, opportunities, media materials and more.
Can set and meet deadlines for self & juniors and bubble up deadlines to others to ensure the larger team does so as well
Competencies — Examples Include
PR Expertise – 4-6+ years in media relations, corporate communications, or public relations with client leadership experience and proven, warm reporter relationships.
Quick, Critical Thinking – Demonstrates an ability to absorb new information and draw insightful conclusions on the fly.
Adaptability – Adjusts quickly to changing client priorities; copes and responds supportively to complexity and thrives on tackling new challenges.
Excellent Presentation Skills – Speaks and writes articulately and efficiently in all forms of communication; presents ideas with confidence and enthusiasm.
Savvy Relationship Manager – Can convey to clients or colleagues why a suggested idea might not be effective from a PR perspective (or, pressworthy) while thinking on one’s feet to present alternative solutions.
Culture Bridge – Knows about trends, communities, and events before others, generating campaign suggestions that connect these emerging concepts to client initiatives.
Organizationally Strong – Plans and delegates in a productive manner, focusing on key priorities.
Efficient – Able to work quickly without sacrificing work quality.
Self-starter – Exhilarated by the opportunity to own entire projects and assignments with comfort being autonomous.
Creative – Loves coming up with new and experimental ways for everything from pitch angles to events to storytelling through brand partnerships.
Proactive – Acts & suggests without needing to be explicitly told what to do. Brings fresh ideas and improvement processes to the table.
Detail oriented – Can spot a typo a mile away, diligent with formatting, double checks everything twice and routinely hits deadlines.
Strong Work Ethic & High Standards – Willing to personally dedicate hard work and additional hours to complete a job to one’s own high standards. Expects nothing short of the best from self and team.
About Small Girls
Small Girls PR is a unique communications firm, championing a personal approach to media relations while leveraging new media heavy hitters, stunts & creative campaigns to build buzz among consumers and influencers alike.
Founded in 2010, Small Girls and its staff are digital natives who know how to speak to their tech-savvy peers on behalf of brands. By identifying narratives that are both mindful of trends in media as well as out-of-the-box, the firm has become the agency of record for large brands and helped startup clients reach global audiences. The founders have been featured speakers on the topics of earned media and influencer marketing at Harvard Business School, Forbes’ CMO excursion, UPenn’s Wharton School of Business and more.
Other accolades for the firm include:
Business Insider’s Top 50 Tech PRs
BuzzFeed’s Top Role Models for 20-Somethings
Effie Marketing Award Winners
Forbes’ 30 under 30
Forbes’ Top 15 Women-Led Startup Companies
Gary Vaynerchuk’s Top 3 Companies to Watch
Marie Claire’s Top 5 Young Guns
NY Observer’s “Power 50 List,” Top 3 Tech PR agencies
Marie Claire’s Top 5 Young Guns
PR Week’s Innovation 50
Well + Good, Companies with Best Perks
The agency is up to 40+ employees and growing 50% year over year, making this a great opportunity to get in with a rapidly growing firm - with the ability to palpably architect the company’s future no matter what level you are hired at.
Other things of particular note:
One-to-one reporter communication. This means no mass BCC, no press releases, and no mail merge – ever!
401(k): Small Girls will contributes 3% of your annual salary into your retirement savings fund, whether you contribute for the 2017 year or not. This is on top of your base salary, rather than out of it, so you’ll receive your total compensation plus an additional 3% equivalent of your annual salary into your retirement savings portfolio.
Healthcare coverage: Small Girls offers multiple plan choices so that Smalls of all lifestyles and stages can choose which is best suited to them. For at least one of these plans, Small Girls contributes 100% of employee health monthly and scales to 80% of contribution, depending on the plan you choose. Huzzah!
Summer Fridays, Vacation, Sick Days, and Preventative Care Days, oh my!: Vacation days at Small Girls increase with tenure/position. Sick days are separate, and while still paid time off, do not eat into employee vacation allotment; we’d prefer our team focus on getting better and not sweat one less day of fun in the sun. In addition, Small Girls is proud to be one of the companies that participates in an annual Unsick Day - a national movement to encourage employees to take dedicated time off to tend to self-care and their health stress-free.
Data plan contribution, commuter pre-tax compensation, and media networking reimbursement: We’re investing in you doing your job.
Happy working environment: Fun & productive workplace, non-competitive (employees are recognized for securing placements for clients outside of their direct domain & helping other hub teams), everyone held accountable for supporting the team.
Strong Company Culture: Group Events (bowling! group yoga! themed apparel days! rock climbing excursions!), celebrations (birthdays! accomplishments! holidays!), employees empowered to maintain & institute culture activities (everyone picks up a piece of the SGPR pie at their own interest to put their stake in making this company the best place to be a part of).
Manager of your own destiny: Voting on clients, ability to suggest & set new policy/standards for company, skill-sharing to co-learn across teams- from event production to digital strategy to blogger relations.
Small Girls PR is a creatively-driven media relations, influencer and experiential agency championing a personal approach to public relations. We’ve never mass BCC’d, we don’t issue press releases and we’ve only used a wire once when we were forced to by pirates.
Our clients range from Fortune 100s to challenger startups. We’ve handled mergers for GE, landed Outdoor Voices first magazine covers, launched and rolled out Hinge globally, and produced Sweetgreen’s infamous block party festivals. We’ve doubled in size year over year which makes this a good fit for entrepreneurial spirits and storytellers who believe PR is more than just press.
“One of the most successful boutique PR agencies” - BuzzFeed
“The team consistently produces clever PR campaigns that draw attention from major media outlets” - Forbes
How you’ll make an impact:
As a strategic leader on this team, you will interface with several of our clients from startups like DoorDash to Fortune 500 companies like GE.
You will lead, manage, and mentor a team of junior members to produce campaign recaps, monthly activity reports, and case studies that support new business endeavors
Hyper-focused on making our clients happy - you’ll advise clients on short and long-term strategy, managing expectations and appropriately setting goals, timelines and deliverables
Lead new business meetings and proposals alongside company leadership, or drive in the absence of a directing partner
You will lead the outreach and management of influencers or brand partners including contracts, deliverables, and overall thoughtful social media program management
Develop thoughtful and strategic social media program management, including audits, research, briefs, guidelines, etc., using insights learned to guide strategy
Why we’ll love you:
You have 6-8+ years of directly relevant experience
You’ve easily handled and overseen a team with multiple accounts at once
You’re proactive and hungry - you act and suggest without needing to be explicitly told what to do. Brings fresh ideas and improvement processes to the table
You are adept at setting narrative-driving strategy that yields engaging social media and influencer content for your clients
You love doing new business and managing a team
Why you’ll love us:
A strong culture: We have a dog friendly office, a committee dedicated to weekly celebrations and quarterly outings, intramural leagues, a book club, a penchant for karaoke and we’ve even taken our staff on company-wide vacations overseas.
We invest in you: We give you a 3% 401k contribution whether you decide to contribute or not, and we cover 100% of the costs for at least one of our health plans in addition to contributing towards your dental, vision, data plan coverage and daily commute.
Atypical Time: PTO is in addition to Summer Fridays and time off for Unsick Days dedicated to preventative care
Professional growth: We double year over year, so we want employees hungry for advancement, which is why we have a networking budget set aside to give you an opportunity to connect with new contacts, program monthly Small Girls University classes where we bring in media and experts to teach sessions in our offices, have dedicated 1 on 1s with your Manager every week and reimburse professional development when relevant to a role (from InDesign to public speaking).
We are a diverse and high performing company that is dedicated to creating an inspiring workplace for all. It is the policy of Small Girls PR to provide equal opportunities to all qualified persons, and to recruit, hire, train, promote, and compensate persons in all jobs without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.
It’s a rather loaded idea, a career. I certainly don’t want to be dedicated to my job above all else, the midnight workaholic who forgets the faces of her friends. Exhaustion is not a status symbol. Yet employment is important. I expect to spend around a third of my waking hours in the next decade working at a job of some kind, likely looking at a screen perched over a desk. As I’ve been pondering my (ugh) career options, I’ve found it helpful to keep a few things in mind:
1. Your job doesn’t have to be your work
I want to work on things that are important to me. I don’t have to do that work at a job.
I grew up surrounded by artists; that my work doesn’t need to be done at my job is axiomatic to me. Ask an artist what they’re working on and hear about the hours he spent stitching the wings for the dragonfly puppet or how she’s finally moved on to inking the graphic novel or how they just can’t get the grandfather actor’s theme music to work in C minor. Ask the same artist how they’re paying the bills and hear about tending bar or laying concrete floors or partners with steady incomes.
You can’t define your work simply by your waged labour. If we did this, we’d think of T.S. Eliot as a bank clerk and Kafka as an insurance officer. That false promise, do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life, obscures that nature of work. One of my favourite essays, In the Name of Love by Miya Tokumitsu, describes the flaws of tethering our self-actualization to our jobs:
If we believe that working as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur or a museum publicist or a think-tank acolyte is essential to being true to ourselves — in fact, to loving ourselves — what do we believe about the inner lives and hopes of those who clean hotel rooms and stock shelves at big-box stores? The answer is: nothing.
We have to acknowledge that some jobs are both necessary and emotionally unfulfilling. Even in the aftermath of your personal favourite utopian revolution, someone is probably going to have to clean the bathroom. Similarly, there is worthwhile work that deserves your time—that you may indeed love to do—but that is profoundly unlikely to pay your bills.
Your job doesn’t have to be your work. It’s just a starting point; your career decisions will involve choosing jobs and choosing work. The internet already contains goodadvice about deciding what to work on. I’ll leave with this thought: is there anything you find yourself drawn to, that you approach with a half-grinning-half-wincing resignation? Some project or activity that is kind of self-indulgent and you should maybe avoid it but also maybe you just can’t?1 Think about making it part of your work.
2. You can quit to explore the decision space
One of the best decisions I ever made was to quit school when I was 13. I wasn’t way more productive in my parents’ kitchen than I would have been a classroom. I did, however, learn a lot about the scope of my decision space.
Even as a preteen, I had this urgent sense that I had to constantly be moving along The Path: an inexorable progression from good grades in high school to a university diploma with trailing internships to a worthwhile job and a future of accumulated promotions. To be off The Path was failure, panic, the worst thing in the world.
Yet after quitting school I was off the path, doing not much other than watching anime and reading physics textbooks, and it didn’t seem to set me back. When I decided to return to school, I had a much healthier attitude. I knew I wasn’t a student just because it was my only option.
Do you have to keep trying to pass the MCAT because you wanted to be a doctor when you were sixteen? Do you have to get a graduate degree because school hasn’t trained you for anything other than more school? Do you have to stay in your office because you can’t stand another awkward year learning to get along with a new set of managers? No, you don’t. You have options, too.
If you feel an urgent constraining dread about your career, because there may not be anything beyond the decisions you’ve already made: quit. Get an exhausting job washing dishes and live in a crappy apartment for a year. Seriously. You can go back on The Path later if you want to.
If you quit, you’ll have to come up with a reason to go back, and you might do better for having one. If nothing else, quitting expands the decision space. It may even be one of the best decisions you ever make.
3. The non-work aspects of your job are important
What have you liked about the jobs you’ve had so far? Was it the work you did? Across six co-op terms, the work I did probably accounted for less than half of my job satisfaction. I can sit irritably at a desk and feel equally unproductive on DNA models or database management or image processing.
What did I like? Regular feedback. Multiple projects to juggle. Long to-do lists. Co-workers who laugh at my jokes. Cal Newport argues that the characteristics of great jobs are work-independent things like autonomy and relatedness. I agree: the actual work you are doing at your job may matter less for your satisfaction than the pace of your work day or the office hierarchy.
Think about what non-work aspects of a job are important to you. This blog post by Philip Guo compares academia and software industry along ten useful dimensions; read it and decide if things like external recognition and time flexibility matter to you. Ask yourself weird questions, like: would you rather be off-key as a voice in a chorus or off-beat as the beatboxer on its side? I would rather my off-key note be covered by the rest of the voices and I see the same tendency in my preference for jobs where I’m a part of a tight-knit team. My friend Malcolm, who is a team of one at his company, would rather be the solo beatboxer who can adapt what he’s doing when he slips off beat.
You already know your job doesn’t have to be your work. When choosing a job, know the kind of non-work characteristics it should have to keep you satisfied.
Looking among those (ugh) career options of mine, my thoughts are scattered, yet: I know my quest for good work is separate from my job search. I know I won’t be trapped along a path by previous decisions: I can always quit and explore the decision space. I know I can find a job with satisfying characteristics without knowing the work I want to do. I think… I think I’m even looking forward to my career.
I personally feel this way about sailing tall ships and figuring out gnarly systems biology, while I feel I ought to be working on making people suffer less. I’m trying to hack my motivation, don’t worry. ↩︎
Portrait of Unknown Man with Postbag and Letters (date unknown; location unknown; subject and artist unknown)
From National Galleries of Scotland.
[To my eye, the style of the subject’s uniform, and my general sense of photography – especially colonial photography, which I think we can assume this is an example of given the backdrop chosen and the literal grassy ground on which the subject stands – suggests to me this was taken in Africa ca. 1900. So vague as to be insulting, so please, if you know more specifics and can do some archival history deductions, clue me in!]
U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks and administers the Oath of Office to the 150th Foreign Service Specialist Class, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on December 14, 2018. Go to https://careers.state.gov to learn more.
The following is an excerpt; the second of a two-part interview with me on Mendeley Careers. (Find part one here.)
Everyone knows how hard it is to get a tenure track role, but we maintain this illusion that this is the only way we can have a fulfilling job. I advise researchers to look beyond the stigma: once you step off the academic track, there’s a world of opportunities. I’ve done work with government, I’ve led a research team investigating environmental health and safety, I’ve worked with nonprofits. I come to my career with the knowledge that there is a lot of fluidity in what I can do. I may do a lot of consulting for a while, and then go back into working for a traditional research organisation.
Researchers should know: our skills are highly valued outside academia, we need to learn how to market them. We should find a way to show to clients and employers how those research skills can be useful. If you can master that, potential employers and clients will give you amazing opportunities. For example, I once went to a job interview for a role as a researcher, and based solely on the questions I asked, the employers in question offered me a management role on the spot.
A non-academic career role is nothing to be ashamed of; it is a source of pride that strengthens research impact on society, as it brings knowledge to new sectors. There are many, many organisations which are in dire need of scientific skills and expertise; in the process, you can achieve great progress for a variety of communities.
The following is an excerpt; the first of a two-part interview with me on Mendeley Careers.
Your speciality is the “Sociology of Work” – what are your sociological observations of the research workplace?
My focus is on gender equity and diversity. I have worked with many different organisations as a consultant and project manager; I’ve instructed them on how to review, enhance, and evaluate effectiveness of different policies. I’ve also provided consultancy on how to provide training at different levels so organisations can better understand their obligations and responsibilities.
Quiz: Which Wizarding World Career is Right for You?
“Well, Potter, this meeting is to talk over any career ideas you might have, and to help you decide which subjects you should continue into the sixth and seventh years. Have you had any thoughts about what you would like to do after you leave Hogwarts?” (OotP 662)
In their fifth year, Hogwarts students meet with their Heads of House to discuss potential career paths and what classes students will need to take to achieve them. Our favorite Boy-Who-Lived himself met with Professor McGonagall, and it was this meeting that set him on the path to the Ministry of Magic’s Department of Law Enforcement, where he works today as an Auror. Now, dear reader, you will step into young Mr. Potter’s shoes for your virtual meeting with your Head of House to discuss your academic interests and what wizarding career they might lead you to.
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Emily Williams has traveled the world in search of birds. As a biologist, she’s worked in Kansas, Argentina, Australia, and Denali, and studied loons, flycatchers, kingbirds, and more. And even with all these experiences and diverse species interactions, she’s now landed (ha, get it?!) on studying the common robin.
Have you seen those amazing scicomm TikToks where someone spews animals facts so fast you can’t take your eyes & ears away? If not, you’re missing out. Good news for you–we talked to the source. We chatted with marine biologist Jaida Elcock about her TikToks, non-profit work with Minorities in Shark Science, and what it’s like to (literally) swim w/ the fishes (i.e., sharks)
Have you ever met an astronaut? How about a Martian?
Well, we have. Kind of.
We chatted with Tanya Harrison, planetary scientist & “professional Martian” about how she used satellites to explore far off worlds, making science more accessible, & Big Bird in Japan (intrigued?)
Carter, Smith, Cooper, Scribe. What do these once-common English words have to teach us today?
Well, two things actually.
First, the relative distribution of those words as surnames tells us that men who write things for a living tend to do rather less well with the ladies than those who work with their hands. Second, it tells us that many jobs that were once common are all but extinct in 2014.
And nobody wants an extinct job. My ground-breaking ‘Jobs of the Future’ series will advise the jobseekers of tomorrow which jobs they should start training for today.
After all, there’s really no point studying to be a farrier in 2015 when the customers of 2025 will all want hoverboard repair men. It’s futile training to be a miniaturist when all anyone wants right now is a skilled selfie photoshopper.
Over the course of writing and failing to sell my previous 59 books I’ve learned a great deal. Specifically I’ve learned about how hard it is to keep thinking up new ideas for books. And perhaps more importantly I’ve learned quite a lot about what makes a person not buy a book.
A series of books is best for a writer. Thinking up a brand new idea for a book is an exhausting business, but once you’ve got a series going you don’t need to worry so much about all the ‘thinking up ideas’ stuff and just crack on with the typing,
The typing’s actually quite relaxing. Pop your special writing playlist on iTunes. Big old glass of Malbec. Woof! Away you go.
But conversely multi-volume series can be a turnoff for the reader.
The first book in a series is a bit of a gamble.What if the series doesn’t continue? Equally, what if I’m starting too deep into the series and I don’t understand what’s going on and who these people are?
That’s why I’m starting my ‘Jobs of the Future’ series with Number 12. That’s been scientifically estimated to be the perfect point in the series to attract readers who are afraid they’re missing out. And indeed the whole series is cunningly calculated to attract the FOMO demographic.
And my ability to not only dream up futuristic jobs such as Social Profile Enhancement / Reputation Management consultant and come up with memorable acronyms for them, that has to be a plus too, right?
Publishers – does this sound like a winner to you? Of course it does. Come and have a chat about it. I’m down the Jobcentre Plus most Thursdays.
LOL yep that’s the day job! I started last year after graduating, working on the NASA side of things with the mission doing social media/outreach, so I’m going to do my obligatory HUBBY LINK DROP: insta,twitter,fb
Hi there everyone! I decided to come back with another article, as I have been spiralling a lot these past few days. I find with quarantine, it’s becoming more and more difficult to get out of these spirals. I thought I’d write about my experiences and what helps in case anyone else was feeling the same way.
Imposter syndrome. Many of us have heard this word before. We feel out of place where we are, like we don’t belong, or that we don’t deserve something that has come our way. I am SO guilty of feeling this way; I think about all the times I’ve told people I didn’t deserve the music award I won at the end of high school, for example. It’s especially difficult when we see everything else that other people have accomplished. When we’re stuck at home during quarantine, these feelings can hit even harder, they have for me. I’m only starting my second year of university in September, but there are SO MANY things happening that I feel like I should be involved in or helping out for. Or that I should be coming up with more ideas. This is especially true for someone who is studying social issues. I feel this way as a writer as well-that my writing isn’t deep enough, or that it doesn’t address certain issues.
I’ll tell you the spirals are difficult, especially when they hit during work and I can’t focus. I’ve found a few things have been quite helpful for this. Take a look at your surroundings and name the things you see, smell, feel. This is a technique used by some during an anxiety/panic attack, but it’s something I’ve tried with my spirals to bring me back to the present moment. Another thing that is very helpful is telling myself “you’re doing great, you still have time, opportunities are always coming your way.”
Yes, opportunities are still coming your way. They can build up your resume and give you new experiences. Stop focusing on what you did or didn’t do in the past, and quit feeling like you should know what to do in the future. This is today. And tomorrow is tomorrow. Each day there’s a new opportunity to learn and grow. Don’t waste it by worrying so much.
I’ve also found this difficult when it comes to Linkedin, and I think I may be growing a bit of an addiction to it. As someone whose future career is very much make or break with your connections, I get worried about how my profile looks. Do I have enough experience? Volunteer roles? Certifications? I somehow compare myself to my older peers with many research assistant roles. But I’m only a second year, and I know I will gain those opportunities as well in my internship program.
It’s good to step away from Linkedin sometimes. I think I’ve updated my profile five times in the last couple of days, and it just keeps making me more worried. Yes, it is nice to see all your involvement in one place, but it also just keeps you comparing to others. If you feel like you have the same problem, let’s take some time to be away from Linkedin and spend some more time appreciating each day and each opportunity.
As a final reminder: yes, you belong here! Yes you are amazing! Yes you will get your dream career one day! Never feel like you aren’t supposed to be where you are; you worked so hard to get there, and I am so proud of you.
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illustration by Andrew Rae for The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t, an article on how creative careers are actually thriving in the increasing digitization of culture.
Can you guess which one tops the list? That’s right: Yale University, where the median annual earnings 10 years after enrolling is $74,200. That’s a lot more than the average American salary of $45K.
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