Daniel Greene

Category: Education

  • How To Talk To A Dean | The Professor Is In

    How To Talk To A Dean | The Professor Is In

    Used this to prep for an interview with a dean during an on-campus interview.

  • Andy & me at my masters graduation ceremony

    Andy's wearing an orange pashmina at a "fun photo" booth a photographer classmate of ours set up at our hooding ceremony. This was taken before I was hooded.
    Andy’s wearing an orange pashmina at a “fun photo” both a photographer classmate of ours set up at our hooding ceremony. This was taken before I was hooded. Photo credit: Sarah Hewlett.

  • Learning while interpreting

    I’m interpreting a three-day seminar and learning while doing it. I love my job. 🙂

  • Changing my blog theme won’t change my life, but applying for teaching jobs will.

    My husband pointed out to me the other day, when he saw me trying out new WordPress themes, that changing my blog’s theme wouldn’t change my life– that if I wanted to change my life I needed to work on applying for teaching jobs. It’s true. I love trying out new designs (in fact, I did get a new theme for this blog), but what I really want is to teach interpreting in a university, and to do that, I have to spend my time on what matters. I did gather my concentration and apply to four different teaching positions. The idea of relocating is both scary and exciting. I’m ready for a change, and while I have some fear of the unknown, I have more hope than fear. Into the unknown might be just where I’m meant to go. And it might be my best location yet.

  • Searching for a colleague who’s searching for a colleague

    I was struck by something my thesis advisor said about writing letters of recommendation for me today: “As a faculty member searching for a colleague, I like to see that a letter has been addressed to the institution” [emphasis added]. Even at 45, master’s degree in hand, I was thinking of applying for a job as begging to be someone’s underling. I needed reminding that I’m a big boy now; nay, I’m a gracefully graying, middle-aged, well-educated gentleman. Of course I know I will be an employee with an employer, and I will be accountable to a system greater than myself. Still, I am now a colleague of the people I’m applying to– I’m a colleague searching for a colleague who’s searching for a colleague. That’s a paradigm shift for me.