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A senior English research project (also known as a Senior Disseration or Senior Thesis) designed to drive the said Graduating class to the brink of insanity. The process of the Career Search revolves around the chosen career you are going into or are planning on going into once you graduate from your alma mater.
The process is very frustating and very confusing to an extent; it consists of an introduction, review of literature you find on your topic (usually five internet and print sources are required); a 'shadowing' experience (when you go off to a distant place, miss a day of important classtime, and possibly not even <i>find</i> anything on your topic), and an interviews section, along with a Works Cited (Bibliography) page. The researching portion for your Review of the Literature usually consists of a grueling six weeks (or two thirds of a nine-weeks) period, in which one will search desperately through several Department of Labor study books and useless webrings to try and find information on your career, only to come up empty handed.
Once your Research of literature and whatnot is completed, you move on to do your 'Shadowing' experience, and your interviews. Your 'Shadowing' consists of a seven-eight hour experience where you pick someone in your chosen profession and literally follow them around all day (hence the term Shadowing). You're meant to try and learn something from this experience, however, such is not always the case, especially when you're set up to shadow someone in your career that doesn't even want you following them around. Interviews are simply periods when you sit down with a person, call them on the phone, or e-mail them to ask them questions; four of these types of Human Sources are required for your paper, but typically you may end up drawing duds on some of them and end up with two or three.
All in all, the process takes up to twelve weeks of time, usually beginning in the second quarter of your first semester and wrapping up just in time for the pressure of your midterm examinations to swoop down upon you like a rabid beast and feast on your now dead, festering soul.
A senior English research project (also known as a Senior Disseration or Senior Thesis) designed to drive the said Graduating class to the brink of insanity. The process of the Career Search revolves around the chosen career you are going into or are planning on going into once you graduate from your alma mater.
The process is very frustating and very confusing to an extent; it consists of an introduction, review of literature you find on your topic (usually five internet and print sources are required); a 'shadowing' experience (when you go off to a distant place, miss a day of important classtime, and possibly not even <i>find</i> anything on your topic), and an interviews section, along with a Works Cited (Bibliography) page. The researching portion for your Review of the Literature usually consists of a grueling six weeks (or two thirds of a nine-weeks) period, in which one will search desperately through several Department of Labor study books and useless webrings to try and find information on your career, only to come up empty handed.
Once your Research of literature and whatnot is completed, you move on to do your 'Shadowing' experience, and your interviews. Your 'Shadowing' consists of a seven-eight hour experience where you pick someone in your chosen profession and literally follow them around all day (hence the term Shadowing). You're meant to try and learn something from this experience, however, such is not always the case, especially when you're set up to shadow someone in your career that doesn't even want you following them around. Interviews are simply periods when you sit down with a person, call them on the phone, or e-mail them to ask them questions; four of these types of Human Sources are required for your paper, but typically you may end up drawing duds on some of them and end up with two or three.
All in all, the process takes up to twelve weeks of time, usually beginning in the second quarter of your first semester and wrapping up just in time for the pressure of your midterm examinations to swoop down upon you like a rabid beast and feast on your now dead, festering soul.
"Man, this research paper is from the Eigth Concentric Circle..."
"They don't call it a Career Search for nothin', man."
"This Career Sh*t is getting on my nerves..."
"The bibliography is due for our Career Search tomorrow!"
"They don't call it a Career Search for nothin', man."
"This Career Sh*t is getting on my nerves..."
"The bibliography is due for our Career Search tomorrow!"
by Ishmael001 November 9, 2006
by Taco . March 2, 2010
1) To make a career out of a temporary job. see Lifer
2)(Mil.) To voluntarily extend one's Tour of Duty into long-term employment
2)(Mil.) To voluntarily extend one's Tour of Duty into long-term employment
1) "I didn't think I'd like sitting at a desk all day in front of a computer, but after this, I might just go career."
2) The Sergeant decided to apply to OCS and possibly go career.
2) The Sergeant decided to apply to OCS and possibly go career.
by pythonspam November 7, 2003
Someone who plays nothing but elves in tabletop or computer RPGs (such as Dungeons and Dragons), and has gotten to the point where they refuse to play a character of any other race.
They are a compendium of lore when it comes to anything elven about a given setting, but they get offended if one plays an elf in a manner they consider incorrect or improper.
They typically play elven females, even if they themselves are male, on the grounds that "they are more attractive to look at when playing".
They are a compendium of lore when it comes to anything elven about a given setting, but they get offended if one plays an elf in a manner they consider incorrect or improper.
They typically play elven females, even if they themselves are male, on the grounds that "they are more attractive to look at when playing".
Player 1: "Hey, what is up with Player 3?"
Player 2: "Oh, he's a career elf. Just let him spend time with his little elf friends and leave him alone."
Player 3 (Career Elf): "I am a great roleplayer, even though my character is born from the depths of Mary Sue-dom, and I only play one race exclusively!"
Player 2: "Oh, he's a career elf. Just let him spend time with his little elf friends and leave him alone."
Player 3 (Career Elf): "I am a great roleplayer, even though my character is born from the depths of Mary Sue-dom, and I only play one race exclusively!"
by PiousHeretic, the Mighty. March 31, 2009
The career criminal down the street addictied to heroin earned his money for the drugs and to pay rent by robbing banks.
by Nicholas Weiner August 15, 2008
A person who is so focused on money, status and career advancement that they are blind to most of what makes life enjoyable and meaningful. Things, people and experiences that do not directly further their career goals mean nothing to them. How they dress, what they drive, where they vacation, what they talk about is all focused on presenting a competent, successful image of themselves to people in a position to hire them, promote them or give them business. Everything else in life is worthless to them (until, of course, they achieve that success and realize it didn't come close to filling the hole in them they thought it would). Then they reverse tactics and become all new-agey in an attempt to reverse decades of single-minded careerism. Children of these people roll their eyes a lot and think their parents are assholes.
I just wasted two hours of my life having dinner with my client. They're such a career nazi, we had to talk business all night long. I need a drink
by kabukulator September 30, 2010
by theman034 June 2, 2018