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Do What Brings You Joy: Returning to teaching college and how Iโ€™m sharing what Iโ€™ve learned with other faculty

  • Posted on Jan 17, 2024

๐ŸŽŠ ๐ˆโ€™๐ฆ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐€๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐จ ๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ฌ ๐’๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ญ-๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐…๐š๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž 1/13/2024! This March will mark my two-year anniversary as a Sociology instructor at Montgomery College! It continues to be a joy to mentor students into being the next generation of inter-culturally competent and ethical critical thinkers. During my service as a

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What To Do When Dream Jobs Become Nightmares

  • Posted on Jan 12, 2024

๐—›๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ณ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฎ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐—ท๐—ผ๐—ฏ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฎ ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ? Looks like Iโ€™m not the only one. At least twice in my career, I’ve walked away from what seemed like golden opportunities because they didn’t live up to the hype. And I’m not alone. A study

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Big Audacious Goals Require 100% and No Plan B

  • Posted on Jan 9, 2024

Unpopular Opinion Alertโ€ฆ. Let me share a secret that separates the good from the truly great: It’s the courage to commit fully to Plan A, without the safety net of a Plan B. Common sense often convinces us to keep a fallback, to play it safe. But what if I told you that the most

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