About Me
EDUCATION (B.A. 1979)
Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, English major Languages: French and Spanish Expertise: art, music, religion, linguistics EXPERIENCE / SKILLS
Editor, archivist, journalist, publicist ESL tutor CBS News, documentary film Home companion, petsitter interfaith/holistic healing Barbara Sher, an American career coach, is responsible for the enormously comforting concept of the "scanner" personality, which is the idea that some of us are simply better suited to being nimble generalists, switching from interest to interest, rather than specialists. If you find self-help's fixation with discovering your "passion" or your "life purpose" to be oppressive and bullying, consider that you might be a scanner and that you really can make a living, and a fulfilling life, as what our specialism-obsessed society dismisses as a "jack of all trades" (Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian).
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