Sentences with phrase «alternative career as»

A classroom teacher might also be able to transition into an alternative career as a virtual teacher for public schools.

However, in my new alternative career as a part - time document reviewer and full time comedian and writer, I assumed I would never again have to take abuse as part of this relatively simple job.

Best known as an actor and comedian, Andy Kaufman appeared regularly on 1970s and «80s American television as well as having an alternative career as an innovator and live performer.

Not exact matches

The years I spent at home as well as in an alternative career gave me a unique set of skills that, when strategically packaged, enabled me to distinguish myself from my peers.

As people increasingly see their previously stable career paths collapse, they are looking at the alternatives.

Anyone who has dared to earn a living as a creative or who has taken an alternative career path knows what I'm talking about.

«Whether it's a direct result of the current economy, or a person's independent drive, we are seeing more and more people across generations starting their own businesses as alternatives to traditional jobs or careers.

Committed to work flexibility, PricewaterhouseCoopers offers a flexible career advancement program and offers work flexibility such as seasonal, temporary, and alternative schedule jobs.

I do not believe in any of the man - made gods, yet I find joy in life with a satisfying career, raising my chiidren, financial security, martial arts, weight lifting, etc.... For some reason you seem unable to accept that as being an alternative.

As time passed, and the earthly life faded into the past and the second advent into the remoter future, one of two alternatives was open: Either the whole saving event could be put in the past, in close conjunction with the earthly career, or else it could be entirely postponed to the future, in close connection with the Parousia.

After tasting the leaf, James May left his career in the healthcare industry and devoted himself to developing a business around marketing the stevia leaf as a safe alternative to sugars.

PLEASE tell me you are working on pursuing food photography or some other kind of street / magazine photography as an alternative career.

Pre baby days, I spent five years building a career as freelance journalist in Atlanta, writing for magazines, alternative weeklies and covering politics for a bilingual Hispanic newspaper.

Rice noted in the video that she has spent her life «not as a career politician, but as a career prosecutor,» presenting herself as an alternative option to Schneiderman and Brodsky.

More charitably, it seems to have served as an alternative avenue for leadership for those coming to the end of their parliamentary careers and with no prospect of ministerial office.

It maybe that for individual backbenchers, select committee Chairs are increasingly being seen as an alternative career route to ministerial office.

O'Malley, who earlier in his political career supported civil unions as an alternative to same - sex marriage, asked the crowd of about 200 to be respectful of those whose positions might still change.

In graduate school, only industry careers were mentioned as an alternative to academic research careers.

Your Real Alternative to a Career in Science by Phil Dee, 19 August 2005 Science Careers columnist Phil Dee considered his career alternatives as he faced a wait of 2 months until the next grant notification — and the final word on whether he would be able to stay in academia — was likely to appear.

Personally, I didn't start looking at alternative careers until my second year as a postdoc.

It used to be envisioned as a career for introverted paper - pushers, but is now an attractive alternative to laboratory science.

As a graduate student in the mid-1990s we never discussed alternative career paths.

The final session covered alternative career paths for scientists where Next Wave's European Editor, Anne Forde gave a practical insight into her career as an Editor and Next Wave's Seema Sharma spoke of her previous career transition working as a Technical Specialist.

I outlined examples of programs, such as career planning offices, manuals, career assistance Web sites, and student - run seminars on alternative careers.

As a career alternative to bench science, scientific publishing may seem far removed from the practical training invested in learning techniques and conducting experiments.

Therefore, researchers in training need to consider and prepare for careers outside, as well as within, academia because «alternative» nonacademic careers actually represent the vast majority of career destinations for researchers nowadays.

Instead, I focused on positions that I found interesting (alternative careers, industry, government labs) and gathered as much information — about myself, my needs, and my potential employers — as possible.

I can't help wondering why, if only 15 % to 20 % of grad students and postdocs go on to academic careers, do we describe the career choices of the other 80 % as «alternative»?

Some of the «alternative» career paths, such as science policy, consulting, and regulatory affairs, seemed particularly enticing, and I wanted to learn more.

Did I say as an alternative career?

Within the lab I bounced ideas off a colleague and chatted to other postdocs who were expressing similar feelings and doubts about their future career and investigating such alternatives as patent work, investment banking, and technology transfer.

My talk originally started as an overview of the global biotech industry and alternative careers that the industry has generated for scientists.

I investigated alternative science careers, such as scientific writing and business development, but most of these appeared to warrant a move to a larger city.

When I sought alternatives, it seemed as if there was little opportunity for a scientific career outside the academic world.

More and more PhDs, educated in a culture that has long viewed — and, in many places, still views — positions outside the academy not as valid career options for serious scientists but as «alternative employment» at best and «going over to the dark side» at worst, began accepting postdoc positions in the belief that additional publications would improve their chance to land that coveted faculty post.

After completing his MSc (pharmacology) at the University of Toronto in 1999, Oak continued in the same lab working as a research technician, all the while considering alternative career paths.

Currently, it includes speakers from our alternative career series, as well as several other contacts provided by Professor Wiest.

Young scientists should bear in mind that the «[d] evelopment of good management and other «softer» transferable skills will act as [a] good «safety net» for alternative careers,» Phillips says.

Invited experts from fields as diverse as finance and publishing will provide an insight into the plethora of alternative careers on offer.

I see myself as lucky that I got my faculty job when I did, and this is one of the reasons why I care a lot about alternative careers for scientists.

When we at Science first recognized the crying need among young people for better mentoring about scientific careers — and about alternative careers to research — we never dreamed that our efforts to fill the need would be viewed as equally valuable in Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, China, and now Germany.

She feels that my Ph.D. is a research degree and I would be wasting it pursuing an alternative career such as science policy.

Although as a postgraduate research student I have to admit that I wasn't even sure where the university careers service offices were for the first two and a half years of my PhD, they proved to be a great starting point for finding out about «alternative careers» for scientists.

Early on in her career as a PA, Mariana expressed her interest in an Alternative / Integrative medical approach to patient care.

At this Fubar website alternative, you can join other people who share your interests, such as books, careers, movies, games or politics.

After spending much of his primary and secondary school education in an alternative arts school, he studied film at New York University.Louiso began his career with minor roles in such films as Stella (1989) and Billy Bathgate (1991), the latter of which provided him with an introduction to Tom Stoppard, who was the film's screenwriter.

John Doe is a man who balances two well - respected careers — as a musician, Doe was the co-founder, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist of one of America's most acclaimed alternative rock bands, X, and while he continues to write and record new material, he has also carved out a reputation as a busy and well - regarded character actor.

Colin Farrell's career has had its ups and downs to be sure, beginning with his breakout role in Oliver Stone's «Tigerland,» which he then followed up with action films like «Minority Report,» «The Recruit,» «Daredevil» and «S.W.A.T.» Roles in alternative movies like «Alexander» and «The New World» didn't do as much to show his range as he would have hoped, but he eventually bounced back with standout performances «In Bruges» and «Horrible Bosses.»

Tracing Haneke's career from his debut trilogy produced in Vienna to Funny Games U. S. (2007), discussed in the coda, this monograph provides a very convincing argument of Haneke's cinema as both a balance between and an alternative to classical realist cinema and counter-cinema.

She had just completed a four - year stint as one of Joel Klein's top lieutenants, as senior superintendent in charge of alternative high schools and programs, which served 30,000 students under 21 and 60,000 students in correctional facilities, suspension centers, and drug treatment centers in addition to students seeking a GED, career / technical education, and teen pregnancy services.