Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strip joints, barroom brawls and Billy Martin. It seems the drug cloud of the past two or three seasons has finally lifted, and the grand old game is itself again, in stitches over another Martin episode, 40 stitches this time, around the left ear. A recounting of his baseball career is more than just a primer for an emergency room. It's an argument for wholesome depravity...
...block working to define its mission." Its efforts to be taken seriously academically are hampered by its high visibility as a kind of Betty Ford clinic for recovering politicians: Geraldine Ferraro, David Stockman, David Gergen and former Senator John Culver have had stints there. The rigorous Mid-Career Public Administration program has come to be known as the "mid-life crisis program." The school is also suspect as a relatively painless way to give a Harvard gloss to an undergraduate degree from a land-grant college and for its networking possibilities. Says a participant: "Where else can a former mayor...
...searches earlier in the academic year and pursued jobs more aggressively. Applicants from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill mailed out resumes to as many as 50 employers each, instead of the 20 or so that most members of last year's class targeted. An all-day career seminar at the University of Virginia (total enrollment: 11,096) drew a standing-room- only crowd of more than 550 students, even though it was held on a Saturday. Says Larry Simpson, U.Va.'s placement director: "I've been here 20 years, and I have never seen students as career...
...market crash forced many business majors to reassess their goals and % tactics. Careers in sales, marketing and product development with large U.S. corporations suddenly seemed more satisfying than the stress and insecurity now promised by a career in investment banking. Typical of this year's class is John Christ, 21, an economics major at Harvard. Having decided against a career on Wall Street, Christ is planning to be a management consultant. He wants, he says, "to get broader exposure to what is going on in the business world, meet a lot more people, and work with a team...
Some members of the class of '88 have shifted their sights from Wall Street to a wide variety of nonbusiness fields, from law to social work. Most noticeable is the rise in the number of students seeking teaching careers. Many of the nation's graduate education schools report they are receiving at least 40% more applications this year than last. At Brown University, 250 students showed up for a one-man show on the life of a teacher, and career forums on counseling drew twice as many future graduates as last year...