Oh, Humanities, it’s time to step up — Echoes of the digital era & 11 career ideas you can explore
“We are in the presence of yet another suppressed term or excluded middle.” — Stuart Hall.
If you grew up as the child of an immigrant like I did, moving from the sunny Caribbean to the frosty expanse of Canada, your career options were hilariously limited. The menu consisted of: doctor, lawyer, teacher, nurse, and if you felt rebellious, a policeman — my last brother became a policeman. The elder of my three brothers nearly wandered down the medical path, hypnotized by family expectations. But one day, he snapped out of his trance, realizing he was living my mother’s dream, not his own. I suspect his decisions might’ve been influenced by a side of familial one-upmanship, given our aunt, my mother’s sister, boasted a worthy surgeon offspring. And let’s not forget my high-flying cousin, my maternal uncle’s daughter, who not only snagged a doctorate from Cambridge but also moonlighted as the Deputy Prime Minister, when not working as a “Minister of this and that.” And, my paternal familial legacy would possibly lead me to, perhaps rising to the seat of Deputy Governor General or better yet, Governor General, in the footsteps of my paternal cousin, now passed.
