Happy Black and Gold Friday, Deac families. I hope that wherever you are, you think about wearing black and gold or WFU apparel to show your WFU pride. And help spread the idea to your students. If we want to have tremendous school spirit, a great way to do that is to wear our school colors.
A few random musings for a drizzly Friday morning. A friend on Facebook posted an article with advice for the Class of 2015 on finding a job and the danger of feeling you have to find a passion. Workplace consultant and career coach Alexandra Levit said this in the article:
“I think what’s dangerous is when we as career advisors tell people they won’t be happy until they find their passion. It puts pressure on people to go out and find this elusive career of passion and… they can’t be happy with the job they have. Just because you have a passion doesn’t necessarily mean you can or should make a living at it. Find a job you like well enough. You’re not going to love every minute of every day, but you want to genuinely get some satisfaction out of it. And then leave time for other things in life that are important, like your personal life, hobby, friends and family.”
You can read the full story here. This is interesting food for thought, becuase many of my contemporaries who have jobs (but their passions might be elsewhere) are starting to question whether to shift their career to more of a passion, but can they turn that passion into a salary with which they are happy? Or is the better strategy to stay the course in a solid job and use the money from the job to fuel your passion on weekends, trips during PTO, etc.
As always, we invite your comments at parents@wfu.edu.
Hope that as Spring Break winds to a close, your students have safe travels back to campus and they are ready to bring a strong finish to the semester. Looming in the near term is advising and course registration for the fall, then housing and dining selection for next year. It will be a busy time.
Just about 7 weeks until the end of classes. How is that possible? The semester has flown by.
