Building your network is a must. More and more people are realizing this all the time, but a lot of people still don’t know WTF networking is. So to everybody who’s told me: That’s not my style. I’m just no good at it. I’m not
Have you ever googled this question? “What degree makes the most money?: Each year, new lists come out of the highest-paying degree fields for that year. Sometimes, we see the list for the lowest-paid too. These types of lists create one of the dumbest phenomena
Lindy Ledohowski, PhD, is the Founder and CEO of EssayJack, a rapidly growing software company that helps students to write better. In this interview with Roostervane, she tells the story of leaving a tenure-track professor job in English, and her journey through consulting to eventually
I did a PhD, and it pretty much felt useless. Honestly, what can you do with a PhD? For some of us (I’m looking at you, fellow humanities grads) it feels like a waste of a degree. But the real question is, how can you
It’s coming up on the one year anniversary of the first visitors to the Roostervane site. While I wrote the first couple posts in June 2019, the first visitors started in September. And that’s when I started writing constantly. There are a few things I’ve
In the last post, I talked about why becoming a thought leader is vital, and I talked about what a thought leader is. In this post, I want to talk about how to do it. So, how do you become a thought leader? In a
So you have a useless degree. It’s okay, I do too. No judgement. Obviously this is a bit tongue in cheek. You might argue that there’s no such thing as a truly useless degree. And you’d be right. But my BA in history felt next
I wasn’t taught about personal finance growing up. You may not have been either. What we did know about money came from social attitudes that my parents (and almost everyone else I knew) held. We don’t talk about money. It’s not polite. Money doesn’t buy
There’s a weird veil of silence for a lot of us about what happens outside of academia with a PhD. It’s a complicated period of transition and there’s a lot we don’t understand about it. Which makes total sense. And since people don’t know about
This interview has been condensed for length. For the full interview, watch the video. Chris: So it’s my privilege today to introduce Carrie Brubaker, PhD. She has an MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern. She’s had roles in science policy, education, she did
