Just Our Luck

In the season finale, Key is solo dolo as she reflects on the past season about what she's learned and what she hopes you took away too! She also chats about a New York Times article that talks about a separation of work life and personal life, that resonates really well for college students too and an endearing subreddit where strangers give each other career guidance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/style/work-life-balance-tips-pandemic.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/careerguidance/

This week Key is joined with Jayda, a Masters student finishing her final semester in Sports Psychology. Jayda tells her journey of changing majors, getting offered a grad assistantship before even picking a program and her plans for her gap year before she pursues her doctorate!

Key chats with Francesca, a psychology and criminal justice graduate who thought she'd be going to law school. We talk about her time working at a law firm and how it helped her realize the future she wanted for herself. Which led to her making a career change almost a year later. What does it feel like not be overworked and under appreciated, ESPECIALLY in a pandemic? She knows all about it.

We're back again this week with Key and Maya, a social work graduate student at Columbia University. We chat about her journey from pre-law to social work, and how her extracurricular work regarding domestic violence and imprisonment alternatives helped define her passion. We also get into our self-care routines, and how we manage our mental given staying inside more often.

Are y'all finally going to believe me when I say everything happens for a reason? This week Key is joined by Rachel, someone who nearly burnt herself out in college. She talks about her journey from English major to PreMed tracking to Psychology and now working in ABA therapy. If you needed a sign to take time for yourself, this is the episode for you!

On this weeks episode, Key sits down with Krystal, who is finishing up her gap year! She talks about what she's learned throughout her gap year, the process of applying to grad school, and professors who take too long to email back! She also discusses her desired career field in social work, and why she's so passionate about it. Sometimes we need a year plus to figure out what we want, and she's here to tell you that's okay!

On this week's episode, Key does a solo episode on battling the raggedy woes of anxiety, specifically workplace anxiety. Listen to some tips from choosetherapy.com as well as advice from previous guests on how to rise above. Tito the Anxiety Mosquito needs to buzz off!

In this week's episode, Key sits down with Josh a full time engineering graduate student, who balances freelance artwork and a part time job. The two discuss how his alma mater tricked him into an undergraduate degree that didn't exist and how he had to juggle the change his junior year. Josh also details his experience with zoom university as an engineering student and the process of considering pursuing his PhD. Whew, the math and science just doesn't stop.

In this week's episode Key is joined with Amber, a Class of 2020 grad currently working as an ESL teacher and working towards her masters degree. We talk about her experience student teaching, and why it was so easy for her to find her current position. The politics of teaching are explored and we begin to delve into what "bad teachers" are and why they still work within the education system. How did we get here? Capitalism, of course!

In this week's episode, Key is joined by Nailah, a pharmaceutical market researcher. She details her journey from pharmacy school to biology to marketing , and how changing your major is sometimes meant to be! She details what working for a market research company is like during their busy year and her considerations for grad school. Also, the two discuss the struggle of finding a work life balance while also being new to the job. and our need to please. We even end with a little manifestation!