Chasing chickens : when life after higher education doesn't go the way you planned / Rachel Neff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neff, Rachel Anna, author.

Series:

Rethinking Careers, Rethinking Academia Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College graduates--Vocational guidance.

College graduates.

Job hunting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2019]

Summary:

"Rachel Neff's story of the best-laid plans of doctoral students reminds us all that life offers many paths to success. Her resilience teaches valuable lessons as she struggles with horrendous interviews, dauntingly intense academic documents, and an employer's seemingly random expectation that she chase literal chickens on New Year's Eve. Neff's experience is atypical only in its specific details; many science trainees face obstacles, and Chasing Chickens provides an important reassurance that-though they may feel otherwise on a daily basis-they are competent, they are deserving, and they are not alone."-Adam Ruben, Science careers columnist and author of Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword

Introduction: My Life App Crashed after the Latest Update

1. How I Got into This Mess

2. I'm a Doctor. No, Not That Kind of Doctor.

3. Getting Over the Fear of "No"

4. Is It a Dragon or a Windmill?

5. Chasing Chickens (and Other Shit I Didn't Think I'd Have to Do with a PhD)

6. The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Control Groups

7. Sticking the Landing

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7006-2794-4

OCLC:

1378937489