The verb might be particularly apt. Cambridge Dictionary uses this definition of career: “(especially of a vehicle) to move fast and in a way that is out of control.” Given that I’ve managed to pack 5 total into this little life might speak to degrees of haste.
• Campus Minister • Academic Librarian •
• Non-profit Administrator • Educator •
• Research Scientist •
Campus Minister
Shortly leaving my work as a Sciences Librarian at Arcadia University in suburban Philadelphia, I began volunteering as a campus minister to the Arcadia Christian Fellowship, an officially registered club (Arcadia.edu; iCandybyWangC). This is not the stretch that people might imagine who’ve otherwise known me exclusively from my secular professional work; I was, after all a staff advisor to the club for most of those 17 years, 2005-2022.
That informal ministerial work became formal when I joined the staff of the Coalition for Christian Outreach (iCandybyWangC). And that avocational work became vocational in 2026.
Academic Librarian
My longest career was as the Sciences Librarian at Arcadia University, lasting 17 years. In that capacity, I taught information research to the undergraduate and graduate science program. One big take away is that authority is relative, except for one particular source. And if the information user wants to challenge whether absolute is even possible, they have to question how absolutely they believe that reality to be.
Non-profit Administrator
I worked for 2 religious non-profit organizations for 5 years — Chinese Christian Church and Center, and American Baptist Churches International Ministries, before that — during which time I made the decision to pursue formal training at Drexel University, Philadelphia to be an academic librarian.
Educator
While in my first career, I decided to pursue formal training at Temple University, Philadelphia to be a high school Biology teacher. I chose not to finish that training past intern teaching.
Research Scientist
Many people who remember my earliest post-baccalaureate training remember it in medical art, a profession whose very existence even more people never imagined. To take it in a yet-more unimaginable direction, my major was medical sculpting. It was that interest that led me to 13 years of work in applied materials research and development. My area of focus was the use of polymers in molding and casting processes.
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