Career Minded

Emily-Rose Smegal began her journey working in architecture and interior design. With success came getting locked into the Toronto cycle: Commute, work, go to bed, repeat. Plus she was travelling for six months of the year. Though this seemed glamorous and fulfilling, Smegal wanted a life outside of airports. She wasn’t enriching the lives of […]

We live in a world where it’s only too easy to feel undervalued and underpaid. A key distinction between the “wanters” and the “doers” is, well, the verb itself. Those who “want” spend their time planning, wishing on stars and moving silently. Those who “do” aren’t very different – they dream, they wish, they shuffle […]

Jasmine Boudreau was nervous to return to school at age 25. When her peers were getting going in their careers, she’d be starting over. But her fear of being out of touch was immediately silenced when she started her classes at Université Sainte-Anne. She felt right at home. Boudreau had always found the idea of […]

Andrew Lipsit spent one year as a math teacher, but he knew before long that teaching wasn’t right for him. After deciding to switch paths, he sought career counselling to narrow down his best path. Considering his math and business background, advice he got was to try out accounting. He was able to secure a […]

Aaron Sanford grew up watching movies and playing video games. She considered digital media a large part of her culture and who she was. Yet instead of pursuing her dream career in the digital arts, she spent years working in customer service. However, once Sanford participated in Katimavik – a non-profit organization offering young adults […]

The non-profit sector is all about connecting you to your community, but if you’re not willing to persevere, the work can be a struggle. Understanding the complexity of the sector and the diligence required is the first key step to succeeding within it. There’s high reward within the industry, but that comes with high complexity, […]

Michael Horne has always dreamed of a career that made him feel like he was making a difference in his community, and he found it with early childhood education. With training from NSCECE — the Nova Scotia College of Early Childhood Education — he has been working in the field for three years, and is […]

Physiotherapy was Wendy Jardine’s first profession, and though she still works in the field four days a week, she saw the opportunity to increase her accreditations by adding osteopathy to her practice through the Collège d’Études Osthéopathiques (CEO — Osteopathic Studies). One of the perks of the part-time Osteopathy Manual Practice Diploma at the CEO […]

When Marie Christianson was still in high school, ICT Northumberland College had come to speak to her school about its massage therapy program. Although she ended up pursuing an undergraduate degree in small business and entrepreneurship at Saint Mary’s University right after high school, she never stopped thinking about massage therapy and the option of this […]

It was always a dream for Dr. Diana Li and Dr. Franklyn Chen to take their medical practise to a higher level by opening a college. After completing their PhDs in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine and working in the field for over 30 years, they knew it was time. “When you’re practicing, you can […]

Do you have your sights set on going to university?  Do you want to bolster your educational qualifications to meet university admission requirements?  Saint Mary’s University is committed to lifelong learning, welcoming individuals looking for opportunities to connect with university and pursue their goals of academic success.  The Studio for Teaching and Learning is home […]