{"id":133,"date":"2001-05-12T15:41:42","date_gmt":"2001-05-12T19:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=133"},"modified":"2001-05-12T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2001-05-12T19:41:42","slug":"most-enjoyable-transferable-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Most enjoyable transferable skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past ten days, I&#8217;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 &quot;professoring&quot; doesn&#8217;t work out.  Among other bits, I brought out our dogeared copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jobhuntersbible.com\/\" title=\"Job Hunters Bible site\">Richard Bolles&#8217;<\/a> <cite>What Color Is Your Parachute?<\/cite> (the 1993 edition).  For the record, here are my ten most enjoyable transferable skills:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Putting public policy in (a new) historical and sociological context<\/li>\n<li>Writing to teach or explain<\/li>\n<li>Researching history in archives<\/li>\n<li>Coaching students and colleagues<\/li>\n<li>Teaching history and related interdisciplinary courses<\/li>\n<li>Reading great scholarship<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing diverse sources of information (data)<\/li>\n<li>Referring people to each other or books for intellectual purposes<\/li>\n<li>Editing serious scholarly writing<\/li>\n<li>Getting things done in a bureaucracy to help other people<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The first seven are fairly close to each other in terms of what I enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past ten days, I&#8217;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 &quot;professoring&quot; doesn&#8217;t work out. Among other bits, I brought out our dogeared copy of Richard Bolles&#8217; What Color Is Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-29","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}