https://benwerd.substack.com/p/the-writerly-nerd

A change of careers only makes sense within a culture where "doing" defines the meaning of the individual, and in which being, as the most sacred expression is not seen

The human DOing is in reality a form of the human BEing and the human BEing is actually a human INTERbeing and finally, the human INTERbeing is simply an INTERbeCOMing a process, not a thing in spite of being given the name label our whole life much like we give an ever-changing river a name

Woolston. C., (2020) ‘It’s like we’re going back 30 years’: how the coronavirus is gutting diversity in science. Nature. Retrieved from: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02288-3?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf236423828=1

Myers, Kyle R., Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin, Nina Cohodes, Jerry G. Thursby, Marie C. Thursby, Peter Schiffer, Joseph T. Walsh, Karim R. Lakhani, and Dashun Wang. ‘Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists’. Nature Human Behaviour, 15 July 2020, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0921-y.

You may be better off for this. I feel like I'm in much the same situation Colin, but I've had the misfortune of knowing what I wanted to do in my 20's, having a reasonable start at it and then later changed paths. I think it feels worse knowing how the other part felt and not being able to regain that with a new path/career.

You're not the only one. It's compounded further having had our parent's generation before us where one could have had a 50+ year career at the same company. Now, no one stays at the same company for more than 3 years and typically has 3 or more careers in a lifetime instead of one.

I wonder if it will be better for the generations after us who grow up with that as the norm?

Being a clergymen as a living meant a guaranteed income and home for the lifetime of the clergyman lucky enough to be appointed to one. Since the incumbent did not receive a wage or sully his hands with works per se, it was considered a gentlemanly profession and many younger sons of gentlemen pursued the church as their career."

(Grace, Maria. Vicars, Curates, and Church Livings. Random Bits of Fascination. Web.)

This isn't breaking news. I'm currently doing a job that wasn't "invented" when i was in grade school

Jerad Maplethorpe

Pamela Fox on careers that involve both coding and teaching.

The Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at University of Mary Washington is hiring an Online Learning and LMS Specialist.

We are looking for an innovative, pedagogically-engaged individual who will collaborate with faculty to harness the potential of our current LMS, Canvas, in online and hybrid learning environments. We are especially interested in someone that can think with and beyond the LMS, helping UMW explore ethical approaches to online learning and intersections between Canvas and the Domain of One’s Own initiative spearheaded by DTLT.

These conversations are important to me. Let's keep having them and having more of them.