Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Challenging questions to answer

Someone recently asked, "What about exercise makes you feel so good afterwards, so you want to do it again?" New to exercising, she did not get that feeling of euphoria so many people seem to get. How would you have answered her?

What other common questions, at work, home or elsewhere are hard for you to answer?

What makes some topics easy to answer, while others are challenges?

Please do share your answers and insights, so we all can learn from each other!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

SLP, Ready for a different career choice?

Are you a speech-language pathologist who is burned out, ready to retire or wanting a second job (full-time or part-time)? How does your experience and degree translate into something else? You want to do something different, but you don't want to go back to school. What other choices do you have?

Author Katie Schwartz, CCC-SLP, reports there are a surprising number of career possibilities, from publishing to government. Her book, Alternative Career Options for SLPs (www.BusinessSpeechImprovement.com/ebooks), offers detailed descriptions of 18 choices, how people started in them, and their advantages and disadvantages. It includes a self-assessment questionnaire to help readers consider possible paths they may take.

Physical and occupational therapists and special education teachers, may also be interested in some of the choices presented, which would apply to those fields as well.