What is your job/position?
Entrepreneur! Author, financial coach, digital creator.
Describe the path that took you from your American Studies degree to your current career or life situation.
I'm on my fourth career and the one I plan to spend the rest of my life working on. American Studies taught me to think, savor the arts, and nurture my soul all along the way. It was an ideal foundation on which to layer technical skills and made me a stand-out marketer and web developer, and now entrepreneur.
What are the specific competencies you cultivated as an American Studies student that you now use in your professional life and that set you apart from your colleagues?
Intuition, how to learn and process/wrestle deeply.
What do you wish you had known as an American Studies student? What advice would you share with current students?
That you might need to get creative about how you apply it or craft out employment :)
*You can contact Emily with questions about her American Studies story at emily@mosomoney.com.