Every decent-paying job in my field in Michigan was demanding a degree, and while they often said “four year degree or equivalent” it was increasingly apparent that “or equivalent” was code for “someone who we already have in mind for the job,” because no one was impressed with my...
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It just … wasn’t right for me. I knew that, in the long run, it wasn’t what I was looking for. So I left. That was about a year ago now. Some days I still wonder I if I made the right choice, giving up a reliable, well-paying job at a company filled with good ...
A dozen years later, coming to another crossroad in my life, I took a path as director of the Chamber of Commerce in Lawrence, Massachusetts. This was a couple of decades after the City lost its manufacturing base, with thousands of good-paying jobs and its economic health, following the ...
I’m not good without a lot to do. I know I got this from my father. I can’t sit around. Give me some work. Let me be busy. I come to the Bahamas to teach a day in advance just in case there is a problem with the travel. When there is no problem that means I have more...
“This wouldn’t have worked without our project partners at the University of Oslo, who inspired Artemis and me when they presented the Oslo method at a 2014 seminar at MSU,” said Liddick. “We approached them that day with our question about using beta decay, and discussions took off ...
. Paying a steep price in casualties, the troops holding the escape corridor open had done their job, and now the survivors among them had withdrawn as well. The desperate retreat had been carried out. But for most of the men, the great escape still appeared to be no more than a hope...
"Good" generally implies a higher level of quality or favorability, often exceeding basic expectations, while "satisfactory" denotes adequacy, meeting basic standards or requirements without excelling.
Living in Japan is one of the best things I have ever done and this is what my experience was like, from the good to the bad, and yep, sometimes the ugly.
I have an undergraduate degree in theatre and am familiar with the works of Eugene O’Neill, having read or seen (or both) most of his body of works. I was only passingly familiar with O’Neill the man, the writer, from brief bios in college text books. Author Robert M. Dowling has...