Leading for the Future: Balancing Skills and Knowledge in a Changing Workforce 

In a job interview once, I was asked the question “Are you in teaching for the love of the subject, or for the love of teaching?”. I remember at the time thinking “I have no idea what answer you want from me here”. I was whole heartedly in it for the love of teaching! Which I exclaimed with buckets of enthusiasm! But I had be burned for this attitude before, with previous interview panels unimpressed by my non-core discipline degree. Real life is not separated out into subjects, it is complicated, integrated and colourful. It takes many routes that are not standardised.