Independent career journalin practice.
Observations,
conversations & questions
from New Orleans
In Practice.
i.
An independent exploration

Beyond
the job
title.

What can six different careers teach us about the way the world works?

An evolving journal of interviews, shadowing, and reflection across public service, law, business, finance, and medicine.

Collected in New Orleans
01 / A note on curiosity
I used to think of careers as destinations. After stepping into other people's working worlds, I became more interested in the questions that shape the work itself.

The conversations

06 stories / 06 people
Images & impressions

The visual notebook.

Books, rooms, marginalia, and spaces for exchanging ideas. A few visual references in the margins of the project.

Two annotated books laid open, with handwritten notes and colored tabs
01 / MarginaliaReading between the lines
Open art-history books and handwritten study notes
02 / A close studyThe habit of looking
An ornate opera house auditorium and brightly painted stage curtain
03 / Public spacesIdeas in the room
A lively ornate theatre with an audience releasing colorful paper
04 / An audienceMaking room for possibility

Editorial reference imagery, not photographs documenting the interviews or shadowing sessions.

A continuing education

No single profession holds all the answers. Each offers a different way to ask better questions.

This collection is part of my independent career-exploration project. The aim isn't to choose a title in advance, but to understand the responsibility, imagination, and everyday decisions behind it.