Getting Your Dream Job… And Taking A Job Away

By Carlee Mallard, on January 15th, 2010%

One of my best friends just got his dream job as the Program Assistant for Communications and New Media at the Morehead Foundation, working back on the same college campus where he spent his undergrad years writing for The Daily Tar Heel as if it were his full-time job. He really is perfect for the position and he’s incredibly happy being back in an academic atmosphere. As happy as he is though, he’s incredibly modest and one of those do-gooder givers more so than a receiver.

For nearly two years prior to this dream job he was working at . . . → Read More: Getting Your Dream Job… And Taking A Job Away

The End of Education

By Carlee Mallard, on December 9th, 2009%

I wrote the following essay for my college composition class freshman year (so please forgive the poor/formal writing style!) about Richard Rodriguez’s autobiographical exploration about the end of his education. I was reading over it the other day and realized that some of the main ideas in this paper would be interesting to revisit now that I’ve graduated college and am trying to find ways to continue learning in a post-formal-education life. I discovered while reading Richard Rodriguez’s “The Achievement of Desire” that there is a stark difference between what I believe he refers to as the “end . . . → Read More: The End of Education

Is management censoring you?

By Carlee Mallard, on November 3rd, 2009%

I was fired today. “Thanks, again, to everyone for your past service in this capacity.”

Let me start from the beginning. I’ve been working at this job for almost a year and a half now. Everyone has always stressed how important being involved in multiple ways has been: join a committee, go to events outside of work hours, say hi in the hallway, take as many classes as you can, ask to work on new projects, etc. A few months ago I decided to get more involved with the Social Committee at work that budgets, plans, and organizes the . . . → Read More: Is management censoring you?

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