Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Steven Savage So fandom teaches you business sense, customer service, entrepreneurship, and courage. All traits and "metaskills" that are useful in your career once you see just how much you've gained from your hobbies and activities.
So after discussing these over the past weeks, let me add one final thing to the list of what traits hobbies give you (or bring out in you) that you can use on your job.
Proper Fanaticism.
You've noticed one of the things I do here is collect useful resources for you, our loyal readers. Heck, I do it for our disloyal readers too (but seriously, come by more guys).
This also means that I encounter what I've christened "The Blog Boneyard".
I keep up on economic news and job news for this blog. I read technical reports and follow trends. I talk to people at conventions and online to find out about their career concerns and fears and successes. I want to be the best at what I do here – being the geek job guru.
I began noticing as I did this there's another motivation coming in there, one some of you may also experience, but not admit.
I want to keep up with things because the world is changing so fast I want to know what is still relevant to people, especially the younger people, I speak to and coach.