{"id":3253,"date":"2018-08-30T10:11:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2018-08-30T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:42:24","slug":"how-do-i-find-a-career-thats-right-for-me-if-im-best-at-reading-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/08\/30\/how-do-i-find-a-career-thats-right-for-me-if-im-best-at-reading-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I find a career thats right for me if I&#8217;m best at reading\/writing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3240\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aw083018-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3240\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aw083018-1-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"How do I find a career thats right for me if I'm best at reading\/writing?\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aw083018-1-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aw083018-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aw083018-1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How do I find a career thats right for me if I&#8217;m best at reading\/writing?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reading and writing are excellent skills to have; they are needed in a variety of careers, from journalists to teachers to best-selling novelists to publishing jobs to lawyers to \u2026 the list is almost endless. Which one to choose? You might try investigating a few of the career paths that sound interesting to you. Go on informational interviews. See if you can shadow someone for a day. Try to find a way to *do* the work: look for an internship or volunteer. It\u2019s really difficult to narrow down career choices: the Career Center (bit.ly\/BC-career) can be a great resource to help you sort it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading and writing are excellent skills to have; they are needed in a variety of careers, from journalists to teachers to best-selling novelists to publishing jobs to lawyers to \u2026 the list is almost endless. Which one to choose? You might try investigating a few of the career paths that sound interesting to you. Go &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/08\/30\/how-do-i-find-a-career-thats-right-for-me-if-im-best-at-reading-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do I find a career thats right for me if I&#8217;m best at reading\/writing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}