I was watching Morning
Joe on MSNBC this morning, which isn’t part of my normal routine. A
two-hour school delay threw off my morning a little. But it felt serendipitous,
because within a few minutes Joe and Mika were interviewing Dwain Schenk, a
friend of theirs who recently published Reset:
How to Beat the Job Loss Blues and Get Ready for Your Next Act. An excerpt
from the book can be
read here.
Hopefully no one reading this has been fired. But if you’re
a teacher who’s looking for a new career, this book may be of use to you. Normally
I don’t recommend books unless I have read them, but it seemed timely and Mr.
Schenk came across as knowledgeable about the subject of job loss but also successfully
dealing with change. The book also seems a bit memoir-ish, as he wrote about his
own experience of how he dealt with his own job loss and his subsequent
re-invention. Even if you still have a job, transitioning to a new field is challenging,
especially if you’ve been teaching for fifteen or twenty years.
I’m going to purchase the Kindle edition of this book and
will post a follow-up when I’m finished.
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