Listen: Career advice for misfits

Jennifer Romolini is a long-time misfit: an awkward, anxious, self-doubting sweaty mess who has nonetheless scored and succeeded at some big jobs.

"[The business world] pats us on the heads," she writes in her new book, "and talk about our left brains. They say we're too emotional to be lawyers ... we can't be business people because we're too odd. But they are wrong."

MPR News host Kerri Miller talked to Romolini about her career guide for people who don't follow the usual career paths, "Weird in a World That's Not."

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