Sound BiteIs your career path daunting? Do you think it might suck? Have you even picked a major yet? Release yourself from the grips of career anxiety with “How Do I Get Your Job?” A podcast that explores cool careers, the people behind them, and how you the listener can achieve similar greatness.
Learn about the axiom where art and engineering meet in a very special episode featuring Dr. Alex Anderson. Anderson is the director of the MS program in architectural history and theory at UW’s college of built environments. Topics of discussion include: the best buildings on campus, Seattle’s infinite construction, and brutalist architecture.
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Jackie McMertrie is the founder of the Washington Innocence Project and was selected by the University of Washington to headline UW’s annual faculty lecture on her work in criminal defense. In this episode, learn what it takes to succeed in the UW School of Law and how students can help her work to exonerate prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted.
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There’s a moving image component to almost any job and in this episode, Cinema Studies Department chair Eric Ames tackles the benefits of double majoring and how CMS can be applied to just about any career path. Topics include books about zoos, changing your major every quarter and getting roasted by Werner Herzog.
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What’s the best way to approach writing a script? Is this even a job? Sit down with UW screenwriting professor Shawn Wong for a discussion on cracking the world of film production, how he fell into screenwriting and how little you actually need to write a good screenplay.
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Proof that we didn’t give up after one episode. This week Luke Schaefer returns for a
conversation with forensic accountant and UW professor Nancy Pasternack to discuss why accounting isn’t nearly as lame as you think and how accounting skills can help you excel in business school. The Enron scandal, teenage modeling, and 9/11 are all valid discussion in episode two of “How Do I Get Your Job?”
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Indecisive UW senior Luke Schaefer sits down with data journalist Kavya Sukumar to discuss her transition from working on the Xbox to working in a newsroom. Learn how a career in data journalism might be right for you, how career changes are possible post-college, and how Kavya turned a Game of Thrones binge into a data driven published article.
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