I’m back from California and digging out from the under the real work that awaited me, but have a lot on tap, mostly thoughts and reactions from the NAFSA conference in LA and my jaunt up to San Francisco. But before I try to get some of stuff down and out, one short anecdote that struck me and that encapsulates a key Working World mantra, that a career path is never straight:
This past week I was introduced to a colleague who started her career, many years ago, working with the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ New York Programs Office (located at 666 5th Avenue, 6th Floor; phone: 212-399-5750). She moved on from that position to become an illustrator for children’s books, then to be a courtroom illustrator, at first abroad and then here in the United States. She eventually moved on to work in university alumni relations. Talk about a winding (yet for her, satisfying and fulfilling) career path—and one that there’s no way she could have planned out.
