Sentences with phrase «writing after careers»

Our guest today is Barry Knister who returned to fiction writing after a career of college teaching.

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After graduating from Simmons College in Boston with a journalism degree, Ifill began her career writing for the Boston Herald - American, jumped to the Baltimore Evening Sun and later the Washington Post.

He wants to forge a career in the nonprofit sector after wrapping up a Masters Degree in nonfiction writing at Johns Hopkins University.

Not until after I took a major risk in my career of quitting my job as a banker and spending two years researching and writing my second book did my mentor take me under his wing and open up for me a valuable stream of knowledge, people and opportunities that have inspired my journey ever since.

After finishing Antioch College at age 19, Shel had to come to terms with his own work history: career paths not only in writing and marketing / PR, but also in radio, teaching, arts, food service, office systems, community organizing, and environmental issues.

We had our first three tinies in four years and then four years after that we added one more baby to the mix right at the time when my writing began to reach more people and my husband's career also became more demanding and we have never been so happy and so tired and so everything all at once.

I do not give up on the hope that, after some years of penance, a chastened Rembert Weakland might write a reflective memoir, having by then discovered, please God, a measure of the wisdom that was so conspicuously absent from a brilliant career built upon prideful foundations that now, through a combination of tragedy and farce, lie in ruins.

After leading the Lakers to a win, Bryant addressed the crowd and described his career by saying, «You couldn't write something better than this.»

Verratti took a huge amount of media flack after PSG's 5 - 2 aggregate defeat by Real with Italian daily La Gazzetta dello Sport writing «he is incapable of keeping a cool head», an issue it said would also compromise his international career.

They write: «Mauricio Pochettino's managerial career began with Espanyol in 2009, with his first win coming soon after.

Arsenal fan John Cross of The Mirror newspaper writes that the 26 - year - old striker is considering his options after coming to the conclusion that a fresh start somewhere else would be beneficial to his career.

After signing for Nice, he told the French press: «I think that my career is different from what has been written.

Here's the write up from the Big East office: «Named the Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Invitational MVP after a 2 - 1 weekend as she led the league this week in kills (6.07 / match) with a career - best 30 in a 3 - 1 win against Missouri State and recorded double - doubles against Oral Roberts and Miami.»

But no - one can deny Ranieri's side their remarkable workrate and supreme team spirit as the entire squad, including many players who were written off with other clubs, came together to form a indefatigable bond, seizing their chance under a manager who was greeted when he arrived last summer with some scepticism after a patchy career but who proved that experience is invaluable after spells at the likes of Chelsea, Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Juventus and Inter Milan.

After learning those statistics and knowing how hard my own transition was from career to home, I knew I had to write this book now.

After a 13 year full - time public relations / writing career, Jamie K. now has the privilege to be home with her 4 - year - old son and 2 - year - old daughter.

I'm a relative newcomer to PR — after almost two decades of having fun in journalism and politics I settled down and set up a consultancy, and Lionel has written one of the first handbooks for anyone contemplating a career in lobbying, and for the 4,000 people he estimates work at agencies or in - house in the UK.

Mr McLeish has shifted his career to broadcasting, writing and lecturing after serving as first minister.

Just a few weeks after conceding the race, Murkowski announced that she would mount a write - in campaign, following an outpouring of support that gave her a «moment of pause from her previous plans to wrap up her career as a senator,» a Murkowski spokesman told CNN.

After a life - long career in engineering, and having his name on several patents related to specialized vehicles and tanks, this was the first patent that Donald wrote and illustrated himself from scratch.

Early in my career, I was taken aback when, after I agreed to support a student's medical school application, he handed me a draft letter he had written.

After that, he went to medical school and began to build a career that combined writing and medicine.

I've written recommendation letters for former undergrads several years after their graduation, served as an employment reference, and given career advice long after someone has moved on from my lab.

Like many young scientists these days, after embarking on a research career, I realised that although I was fascinated by all aspects of science — especially my own field of ecology — I did not want to spend the next 30 years writing grant proposals, carrying out experiments, and publishing technical articles.

«I accepted my postdoc 6 months before I defended, but I didn't start my new job until 2 weeks after my defense,» Rebecca wrote on the Science Careers forum.

To help the roughly 40 % of postdocs who don't wind up working in industry find jobs after their postdocs, Pond says, NIBR is ramping up career development over the next year, implementing programs and workshops to instill «soft skills» including scientific presentation, scientific writing, and grant writing.

After trying many different approaches to help students become the best they could be, this is my advice to you: at the end of each year (sometime in December) have your students set goals for experiments / writing, career development exercises, conferences to attend, etc..

After his appearance at the AAAS meeting in Boston last month, Big Bang Theory co-executive producer Eric Kaplan sat down with Science Careers to discuss the show, his job, and his path into comedy writing.

«The majority of trainees will eventually choose to pursue those careers, but only after having made irreversible investments in what is often more than a decade in training for academic jobs that do not exist,» the presidents and chancellors wrote.

From Évariste Galois, the genius who laid the foundations for modern group theory before dying at 20 in a mysterious duel, to René Descartes, who wrote «I think, therefore I am» after a career as a mercenary, the personalities chronicled here expose a side of mathematics far removed from its usual staid reputation.

Wendy Ingram, who co-founded a well - being and mental health peer support network when she was a graduate student at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, after a dear friend in her program died by suicide due to depression, agrees that «more academic institutions are taking steps to tackle mental health issues,» she writes in an email to Science Careers.

After a mind - boggling hunt which seemed to take me to every career - related site on the planet, I came to the conclusion that there wasn't anything that would demonstrate how transferable postdoctoral experience can be to new fields, so I eventually wrote my CV from scratch!

After being awarded a 2013 AAAS Mass Media Fellowship to write for Scientific American, he left a research career at the U.S. Naval Observatory to pursue a new life writing about anything and everything within the local cosmological horizon.

After launching her career in wellness writing and editing at Shape magazine, Mallory went on to become a health editor at Family Circle magazine.

After a career in retail leadership and training she decided to combine her passion for teaching, writing and wellness.

Writing has always been one of my passions, which led to a career in the media world after I graduated in Journalism & Mass Communication.

I started out my blogging career writing a few posts on Jolie Pagaille in 2013, and after about 6 months or so I was hooked and wanted to venture out onto my own.

chicago IL About Blog After retiring from a successful 40 - year run in sales, Robert Terson wrote a book, Selling Fearlessly, and started a blog based on the insights and lessons he learned over his extensive career.

Before embarking upon his writing career, Caesar served in World War I and earned a Distinguished Service citation after volunteering for a medical experiment.

But after a series of public controversies Jason's career has hit the skids, prompting the fans to write him off as a one - hit - wonder.

Finkel wrote the book at the low point in his professional career, after he was fired for building his latest New York Times Magazine cover story, «Is Youssouf Malé A Slave?

After a stellar career in student drama at Oxford, he had joined the BBC, but he was soon also writing film criticism and, in 1956, was one of the founders, along with Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson, of the Free Cinema movement, espousing a cinema free of commercial and political constraints and using a personal style to capture working - class life and popular culture, which had been ignored by traditional British cinema.

The new period movie The Man Who Invented Christmas is loosely based on the true story of how Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in just six weeks, trying to rekindle his career after a...

After the adaptations of «Mystic River» and «Gone Baby Gone» reignited the careers of Clint Eastwood and Ben Affleck, respectively, it seems the studios are snapping up his titles faster than he can write them.

Jenji Kohan began her writing career on The Fresh Prince Of Bel - Air after graduating from Columbia University.

A quartet of unemployed actors, after being ejected from the fest's afterparty, ruminate about their careers and decide to hole up in a house in the sticks to write a screenplay for their own calling - card vehicle.

Dewey Riley (David Arquette), now Sherriff, and Gale Weathers - Riley (Courteney Cox), now attempting to leave behind sensationalistic journalism for a career writing fiction, are married and trying to keep their personal and professional lives separate («Later, hon,» Dewey intones during a press conference about the killings after Gale asks if there's any connection to the movies made out of her books).

As of this writing, the film has grossed almost $ 49 million at the domestic box office, an enormous success for an arthouse film, and the second highest gross of Anderson's career after The Royal Tenenbaums.

But with adulthood came myriad disappointments and heartbreaks: Richie (Luke Wilson) retired from tennis after a humiliating loss and took to the seas; Margot's (Gwyneth Paltrow) writing career hit a stall and is now stuck in a passionless marriage to the much older neurologist / writer Raleigh St. Clair (Bill Murray); and Chas (Ben Stiller), while still successful, has become a paranoid safety freak and overprotective father to his two sons after his beloved wife was killed in a plane crash.

After early success writing for the National Theatre and for Alan Partridge, Marber's career stalled.