Why the 11th Annual Career Symposium is Awesome! The 11th Annual NIH Career Symposium is on May 18, 2018. This great event features career panels to help you make career decisions. Register now and join us! Top 11 things on why the career symposium is awesome: You can look at what careers you might want. We have faculty, industry, government, bench, non-bench jobs to highlight. Come hear about what these folks do all day at their jobs to make sure you are ready. You could also decide which careers do not fit you. If you are unsure what is next, you can “test” careers-it is just as important to…
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Opinion: Don’t Start Work Until Age 40
According to Laura Carstensen, a Psychologist at the Stanford Center on Longevity, our lives and careers have been arranged wrong. She contends that we shouldn’t start working until the age of 40. Instead, she purports that rather than a four-decade professional sprint ending abruptly at age 65, we should plan for longer careers which are dotted with more breaks along the way. Breaks that account for the myriad factors in one’s life, namely family needs and opportunities for more learning. The current norms around career pacing don’t allow young adults to explore careers through education and apprenticeships. The current model doesn’t account for the demands that come with having children…