Uneducated : a memoir of flunking out, falling apart, and finding my worth /
Zara, Christopher,
Uneducated : a memoir of flunking out, falling apart, and finding my worth / Christopher Zara. - First edition. - x, 261 pages ; 25 cm
"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.
9780316268974 0316268976
2022939872
Zara, Christopher.
Journalists--United States--Biography.
Autobiographies.
Uneducated : a memoir of flunking out, falling apart, and finding my worth / Christopher Zara. - First edition. - x, 261 pages ; 25 cm
"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.
9780316268974 0316268976
2022939872
Zara, Christopher.
Journalists--United States--Biography.
Autobiographies.