Bliss Success Keynote 2008 NIEHS PDF PPS You may also watch the presentation in this post, below. Other PHD career related articles I’ve written: PhDCareerClinic.com Event Information: 11th Annual NIEHS Biomedical Career Fair Thank you, NIEHS postdocs, for inviting me! The NIEHS career fair committee did an outstanding job planning, organizing, and executing a huge [...]

How much would you want to earn? $500,000 a year – or – $250,000 a year No brainer, right? Who wouldn’t want to earn $500,000 a year instead of $250,000 a year? But wait. Let’s add the following qualifiers to the amounts: $500,000 a year, traveling the road warrior rate (usually over 75% time away [...]

1. Remember the “Path” in “Career Path.” Early on in my professional career I completely forgot about the “Path” in career path. I also ignored the wisdom of “life is a journey, not a destination” because it conflicted with my overly goal-oriented mentality. I had to personally experience how my frenetic outward motion of achievement [...]

We’re all familiar with the physical currency of money. This is a measurable and tangible form of money, for example, how much we have in your bank accounts, how much cash we have in our wallet (note: credit cards don’t count!). We sometimes transform this physical currency into material goods, which may convey a status. [...]