Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Omigod, Omigod, it's midterms, I'm late with a 10-page paper, my section leader called me at midnight on Friday to tell me I'm failing--at midnight on Friday--I failed the GRE's, my thesis advisor wants an outline, I have a job interview tomorrow, and my boss wants me to go to work extra hours this week...
...problem, Machell explains, lies in how much energy and emotion scholars invest in their work. It becomes no longer simply a job, but an identity, a product they own. Further, professors, like high school teachers, are on their own in the workplace, defining and grading their own success...
Partially because the candidates were Democrats, and partly because I am an eternal optimist, I took the job running this campaign. I produced seven coherent strategies for candidates to walk through key neighborhoods. I produced several plans for candidates to greet commuters at railroad stations. I made repeated pleas for candidates to communicate with each other. All were ignored...
...never expected, ever, that I would be running for a statewide office," Kraus says. But he added that his time in the Legislature and as assistant director of admissions and financial aid for the College gave him a valuable perspective on the job...
...these factors, friends say, make him ideal for the job of state treasurer...