Henrik Adler

How Did I Get Here? From Graduate to Where I Am Now!

What skills and interests led me to choose my subjects?

When I graduated in 1980, there were no high school teaching jobs left. What then? I had never wanted that anyway, but still...
How were my skills, interests, and education utilized in my professional life? What did it mean to have a general education: Being an academic - the specialization, thoroughness, and academic virtues. How did my subjects fade and yet resonate in my work as a private business consultant?

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The students will receive:

A tour de force through a career with many facets:

  • Initiator and editor of the music magazine GAFFA
  • Information consultant and journalist
  • Psychotherapist and later organizational psychologist
  • How (un)important a subject-specific education needs to be for career choice - and yet plays a significant role in what one later focuses on