My undoing began in Argentina in the summer of 2022. On a study abroad hosted by the U of U's Honors College I was given three books - The Open Veins of Latin America, The Divide, and Marx's Ecology. I've been craving to engage in this world ever since. As an Anthropology major my career path was finite - PHD or sell out, and after years in Corporate Finance I made a pivot back to academia where I finally had the engagement I was craving. At Duke University I was able to find environmental economics, micro economics and none of them sat right. I'd ask questions that would oft be poopooed by the professor as if the inquisition itself was an inconvenience to their cram packed lecture schedule. That's when I was able to find my political economy peeps - course on liberatory economics, feminist economics, collective action and participatory/behavioral economics, fed my soul up! Then Della Duncan had Andrew Fanning on - and the dots started to connect. I had already enrolled in my final semester of this masters, one last hoorah! My schedule came down to Well-Being Economics or Climate Finance - and I was told that the skills in the finance world were unmatched, extremely sought after, and the better course - but I chose differently. The textbook is doughnut economics, the chapters we are assigned consume me, and I tend to finish the whole book. I feel like a junkie who's found my drug - but similarly with no direction or home in the job market.
Excuse my longwinded response, but I would love some help in learning more, tools to apply, or ways to intervene in the system that are impactful. Advice, coffee, what ever it is - I'm hoping to connect with some like minded people, it's lonely out here.
