May 12, 2001
Most enjoyable transferable skills
Over the past ten days, I've carried on a correspondence with a graduate student at another institution who is having problems with her advisor and wondering if she can do anything with her skills if "professoring" doesn't work out. Among other bits, I brought out our dogeared copy of Richard Bolles' What Color Is Your Parachute? (the 1993 edition). For the record, here are my ten most enjoyable transferable skills:
- Putting public policy in (a new) historical and sociological context
- Writing to teach or explain
- Researching history in archives
- Coaching students and colleagues
- Teaching history and related interdisciplinary courses
- Reading great scholarship
- Analyzing diverse sources of information (data)
- Referring people to each other or books for intellectual purposes
- Editing serious scholarly writing
- Getting things done in a bureaucracy to help other people
The first seven are fairly close to each other in terms of what I enjoy.
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