Title:
Uneducated : a memoir of flunking out, falling apart, and finding my worth / Christopher Zara.
ISBN:
9780316268974
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, [2023]
©2023
Physical Description:
x, 261 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Author's note -- Prologue: Monopoly on the twenty-ninth floor -- Part I. Look good on paper -- All work, no pay -- Long game -- Traitor -- Stupid shy -- D list -- This is not a democracy -- Quiet room -- Pit stop -- That old college try -- Part II. Welcome aboard -- Life lesson -- Ivy League Mafia -- Deep shame, sweet relief -- Be strong -- But I just got here -- How to avoid a slush pile -- Must be educated -- They call me Mr. Gates -- Diseased corpses -- Part III. Clicks -- News to me -- Drinking games -- Point A to point C -- Retrofit -- Midseason replacement -- Mousetrap -- Bump -- Title change -- Operation New Deal -- Cliff notes -- Last call -- Networks and networking -- Learning curve -- Where do we belong? -- Thirty years of magical thinking -- Higher learning
Summary:
"For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back. From a school for "troubled kids," to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New York in his thirties, Zara spent years contending with skeptical hiring managers and his own impostor syndrome before breaking into the world of journalism--only to be met by an industry preoccupied with pedigree. As he navigated the world of the elite and saw the realities of the education gap firsthand, Zara realized he needed to confront the label he had been quietly holding in: what it looked like to be part of the "working class"--whatever that meant." -- Provided by publisher.
Personal Subject:
OCLC Number:
on1378505373
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