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Turn Yourself Around

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Here's a little career exercise to try for yourself.

Get a good image of what you do for your job.  Now get a good image of what you do on your hobbies.

Now ask what your life would be like if you reversed them.  How could what you do on your job make an interesting hobby, and what would you be doing if you could do your hobbies as a job?

Think this over for a moment, then ask yourselves these questions:
1) How similar would your life be in such an inversion?  Why?
2) If your job is something you dislike, but you visualize it as a fun hobby, how can you take that to improve your job?
3) If your hobby was a job, do you see any flaws or unforeseen things you wouldn't like?

I enjoy this exercise as its very revealing, and sometimes surprising.  I rather like my job and its often similar to what I do in my hobbies – I can see how, under such an inversion, I'd rather miss aspects of my job and how they may make interesting pastimes.

Keep this in mind, see what you find.

– Steven Savage

It’s not a job search . . .

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A strange thing keeps coming up in my readings on employment – the fact a lot of people put surprisingly little time into finding some.  As in perhaps ten hours.

This is an alien idea to me, since my past job searches involved, on average, 30-50 hours of work a week, and at worst about 25 (and that was in a really slow economy).  Or in short, it was a full or part-time job for me.

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In which one of your bloggers apologizes

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Everyone who reads this knows that Fan-to-pro has it's crush objects.  One of mine is Emergent Game Technologies.  However in a deep irony, I tend to get their name wrong – sure I get the Emergent part right, but I've also called the Emergent Development Technologies and Emergent Technologies, and probably a few other names besides.  Once I get a wrong name stuck in my head . . .

So, with that correction issued, let me note one of our crush objects is EMERGENT GAME TECHNOLOGIES – along with Crunchyroll and a few others (maybe I get their name wrong as its so tame?).  Anyway, they're quite nice folks, have good technology, send them a resume and stay on top of what they're doing since they've got some big clients.

– Steven Savage