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Career

14 Life Lessons College Won’t Teach You (2023)

Updated Jan. 17, 2023 In my first year of college, I moved in with my band. Yeah, that’s right. I was actually planning to be a rock star, but agreed to get an education as my “backup.” You know how rock stars be 😉 Someone

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Career

Stop Googling, “What Degree Makes the Most Money?”

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

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Personal Growth

6 Simple Clues to Know When to Walk Away

Updated Dec 11, 2022 I once held the hand of a stranger who had just found out she was about to die. She was in her late 60s, diagnosed suddenly with terminal cancer and weeks to live. I was an awkward young seminarian, training to

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Personal Growth

How to Be Successful – 7 VITAL Rules (2023)

Updated February 1, 2023 When I got to Ottawa, I found that everyone had ideas about how to be successful. Friends told me that I should get a job as a policy advisor in a cabinet minister’s office or for a politician. In some ways,

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Leaving Academia

Why I Don’t Regret My PhD

I was having lunch with a fellow PhD working outside of academia the other day, and I articulated something I’ve been thinking but didn’t quite know how to say. I don’t regret my PhD. I really don’t, even though I’m cynical about academia. It’s a

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