Parents often come to me worries about what their liberal arts major is going “to do with their life.” Why couldn’t they be an engineer? Engineers have purpose! Both my parents are engineers, so imagine their initial chagrin when they found out that I was not only majoring in Liberal Arts, but I had designed my own major at Duke to boot! My dad just said. “Just get a job when you graduate, please.”

And get a job I did – at a major investment bank (which I was not fully suited for because I love people more than Powerpoint) – a job that many economics and finance jobs would have loved to have landed. But then I missed working with kids, so I started Green Ivy, and here we are.

The Monday Rec is Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads, and is written by Sheila Curran and Suzanne Greenwald. Sheila used to be the Director of Career Services at Duke, and the book is Awesome! It really helps give students and parents a flavor for all the opportunities out there…its uplifting, motivating, and more than one engineering parent has thanked me for loaning out my copy!!