Entries by Jeffrey Ian Ross

Accessing the lived experience of others

Lived experience can be an excellent data source for scholarly research and career development. In particular, lived experiences can provide anecdotal evidence and inspiration for hypotheses that investigators may want to empirically test using different research techniques. It may also motivate and drive scholars’ passion to conduct research regarding a particular topic. That being said, […]

Reconceptualizing jobs, trades, professions and careers as a series of projects and experiments

Jobs, trades, professions and careers typically provide tangible (e.g., economic) and intangible benefits. But this approach to earning an income often comes with a considerable amount of unstated, unarticulated, unrealistic, poorly articulated and understood baggage. This baggage includes the numerous challenges and sacrifices that one must make to complete a course of studies, earn a […]