Bibliograph

Uneducated, a memoir of flunking out, falling apart, and finding my worth, Christopher Zara

Type

Label

Uneducated, a memoir of flunking out, falling apart, and finding my worth, Christopher Zara

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Uneducated

Oclc number

1378505373

Responsibility statement

Christopher Zara

Sub title

a memoir of flunking out, falling apart, and finding my worth

Summary

"For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back. From a school for "troubled kids," to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New York in his thirties, Zara spent years contending with skeptical hiring managers and his own impostor syndrome before breaking into the world of journalism--only to be met by an industry preoccupied with pedigree. As he navigated the world of the elite and saw the realities of the education gap firsthand, Zara realized he needed to confront the label he had been quietly holding in: what it looked like to be part of the "working class"--whatever that meant."--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

Classification