By Jessica Hagy. Published as a ChangeThis manifest. Jessica Hagy has a unique and irreverent sense of humor, and has the ability to capture complex realities in a 3” by 5” frame. Here she has organized a series of twenty index cards she has created throughout the years, plotting the trajectory of an imagined, but possibly recognizable, career path.

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A Career Path in Pictures By Jessica Hagy
Jessica Hagy has a unique and irreverent sense of humor,
and has the ability to capture complex realities in a 3” by 5” frame.
Here she has organized a series of twenty index cards she has
created throughout the years, plotting the trajectory of an imagined,
but possibly recognizable, career path.
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Your girlfriend’s listed as a reference?
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Mommy can’t help you now.
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Entrepreneurship.
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Always. Everyone. Everywhere.
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Misfortune.
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Fitting in.
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You have to be fully-vested to see returns.
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Yes, there is always another option.
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Envelope stuffing vs. Envelope pushing.
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Efficiency = Cheap Apartment
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He looks very tired.
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How green the lawn, and yet, sadness.
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Sorry.
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Time to what?
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Those simple steps are never so simple.
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Following directions to nowhere.
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Weathering it.
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Work what you’ve got.
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At least that I can see.
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Safe travels.
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About the Author
Jessica Hagy is a very different kind of thinker. She has an astonishing talent for visualizing relationships,
capturing in pictures what is difficult for most of us to express in words.
At indexed.blogspot.com, she posts charts, graphs, and Venn diagrams drawn on index cards that reveal
in a simple and intuitive way the large and small truths of modern life. She describes her approach
succinctly, stating “This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others.
I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.”
buy the book Praised throughout the blogosphere as “brilliant,” “incredibly creative,” and “comic genius,” Jessica turns
Get more details her incisive, deadpan sense of humor on everything from office politics to relationships to religion.
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