Let me introduce you to an incredibly powerful artifact, one that many of us have, and that can help us make our small contributions to alleviating unemployment and the suffering of our friends.
Your living room couch.
Advice
The Lessons of Fandom: Proper Fanaticism
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.
Blogs in The Boneyard: Better Off Buried?
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".