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entrepreneurs wear many hats, teachers don't need to put on one more [response to creativity article in forbes]

by: alec sorensen march 25, 2015

as an english major who graduated into the recession of 2008 with little work experience, i learned a lot about the value of failure. i had taken one class in web development my senior year and decided on a web-based future career. with the tacky blue-and-orange portfolio site i created in my class, i applied to hundreds of jobs over the next couple of years, learning as much from failed interviews as i did from brief internships and freelance gigs with companies that couldn’t afford full-time staff. little in my formal education had prepared me for this learn-by-failure approach.