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Relocating For Work: Learn To “Interview” Places To Live

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At some point in your career you’re probably going to have to relocate.  If you’re lucky, it won’t be far, maybe the next town over.  I’m not sure how lucky you’re going to be – we geeks have careers that tend to the urban areas, the cities, the centers.  Chances are a lot of us don’t live where we should or will, and will have to get packing.

Now if you have to relocate, short or long, at some point you’re going to have to decide where to go.  I like to think of this as “Interviewing” a city or town to find out if it’s right for you.  It’s just like a job interview, only you’re seeing if the place you could end up at is worth moving to, and no one is going to ask for job experience no one has.

I reccomend taking this approach wether the move is far or close – because even if a move isn’t far from where you are, moving after a bad choice is still a lot of work.

So, let’s get to it.

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Steve’s Update 11/16/2015

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I hope everyone is well after the terrible news last week in Paris, Beruit, and more.  I hope you and yours are well.

I’ve wanted to say something about these terrible attacks, but I’ve found they’ve been said best by my eloquent friend Serdar.  We cannot become what we hate.

With that, a few quick updates.  I’m going to keep it tight due to the tragedy.

  • Way With Worlds should be back from the pre-readers in two weeks.  I’ll be doing a deep-dive edit on it for concept and clarity – and dividing it into two books.  I’m honestly not sure if this’ll be done in December or in January.
  • We’ve written the first chapter of the Sailor Moon book – and it went through some revisions of focus as we did it.  Even though we analyzed each person after their interview, analyzing them together and exploring the major themes takes a lot of work.  The book may still surprise us – well, surprise us more.
  • My upcoming book on creativity – No title yet, and it’s taking longer, but it’s definitely worth it.  It’s going to be a way to identify your creative methods – then try others.
  • Next Generator – Is going to be reality TV shows, but as that one is taking longer as I’m trying some new analysis techniques (that also involve me writing up my findings), I may do an intermediate totally-for-fun crazy one.  You’ve been warned 😉

I hope you’re all well.  Let me know how you’re doing.

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