Careers by Design: The Interviews

Gordon Career Center benefactor Andrew Brandon-Gordon ’86, Participating Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Co. “When I left Wesleyan I felt like I was prepared to do really anything. I felt that the education really was a means to figure out how to problem solve on a pretty broad basis…I felt that I had the building blocks to confidently go into the workplace.”

We speak with Laura Walker ’79, President and CEO, WNYC, the nation’s largest public radio station. “For me a lot of the fun of it, and the challenge of it, and the kind of stuff I love to do, is the mix of the creative and the business… I think that actually started at Wesleyan… There’s something about seeing connections and drawing them and reveling in them…and not being scared by the ambiguity, but being challenged by it.”

Hear from Joshua Boger ’73, Founder and Board Director, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Executive Chairman, Alkeus Pharmaceuticals. “That’s, by the way, the career advice I would give everybody. That’s the question you need to ask yourself. Are you happy?”