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Geek As Citizen: Change In Your Geek Job Guru Routine

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Time Moves On. As A Geek Job Guru You Need To Move With It.
Time Moves On. As A Geek Job Guru, You Need To Move With It.

For the last week I’ve been posting on how you could do your own geek job guru work and help your career and how it’s a good part of geek citizenry.  It is my true hope that you, my fellow geek, will seek to help others in their careers and indeed in their lives. I’d like you to coach, speak, and be a role model.

I want you to be the kind of person you could look up to if you were younger than . . . er . . . you.

There is, however a problem.

Also at some point you’re going to have to realize you’re going to have to change what kind of geek job guru you are. This is because no matter how good you are, smart you are, and helpful you are, the inevitable march of time is going to alter the value of what you know, how you communicate, and how relevant you are. When this change happens you need to catch it, or you’re going to end up giving the wrong advice and setting the wrong examples.

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Geek Job Guru: Build That BS Detector

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Running Of The Bulls

If you want a successful career, build a nice big mental BS detector, my fellow Geek.

BS detection is necessary for your success in any career. There’s a lot out of it in the world, and seemingly more every day as advanced technology let’s us manufacture crackpot ideas and complete lies even faster than usual. If you can’t recognize it, you’re sunk as you’ll make bad decisions, sign on to a guaranteed-to-fail startup, or stick with a failing company.

You’ve probably seen it happen to your friends and family or had it happen to you.  “What the hell was I thinking?” seems to be a really common career question.

Don’t worry, beeen there.

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Update 1/28/2014

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This one is a bit late, as I have been busy at work, speaking at AODSF, then getting sick.  So yeah, a bit crazy.

  • The book is in the last editing stage.  So this weekend is the last run through then I start formatting for  . . . all the different formats.  Not as easy as it sounds because no matter what, Print, PDF, Nook/ePub, and Kindle are all different.
  • Got some more cooking notes coming.  I have a new stage of my curry experiments and a new sauce.  And a side dish.  But seriously, whatever I caught at AODSF is sticking around.
  • I am now delaying my next book – whatever it is – for a quarter so I can settle a lot of other things I’m doing – crossroads Alpha, getting new writers, etc.
  • The next generator for Seventh Sanctum is delayed because of the above.  But it’s close to done.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, publishes books on career and culture at http://www.informotron.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.