I remember after I had graduated from college I couldn’t wait to move to a new city and start my career. I was hopeful that there would be tons of jobs waiting for me when I arrived in Austin Texas. Someone had said that it was a booming market for recent college graduates and that
Before finding your true career calling, it’s likely that you held a job that seemed unrelated to what you hoped to do. Though you probably didn’t realize it at the time, the job may have helped you develop skills essential to success in any career.
As the economy improves and hiring increases, recruiters may need to cast their nets wider to locate the very best college graduates this year.
At age 35, Paul Gauguin was working in a bank. A year later, he chucked that job, along with his wife, his children and his prosperous but predictable Parisian existence for a tumultuous life as an artist in southern France and then Tahiti. It was a life he later described as “ecstasy, peace and for
