Advice

Do You Have a Career Best Friend?

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Do you have a Career Best Friend?  Someone to talk to for advice?  Someone to bounce career ideas off of?  Someone who can talk to you about their career?  Someone you share professional experiences with?

We all need a career best friend – or friends – because for careerists life can get awful complex.  We can get lost in a maze of certifications and job data, we may need a boost, we may need someone to shoot down a harebrained idea.  We also need someone who we are truly friends with to do that, since otherwise we're probably not going to listen to them.

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Combining Careers And Interests: Who you work for

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So you want to make sure you live your geek interests as part of your career?  I've discussed how you can do that with what you do, and what you create, so let's look at another way.

You can live your interests in who you work for.

There are companies and businesses you can work for, clients you can support and consult for, that do things that fit your interests, your geekery, your otakudom.  In working for them you can support the things you care about and are interested in even if you don't use "geeky skills" or even have much involvement in actual product.

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Are You Suffering Idea Burnout?

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You have plenty of ideas.  They keep coming to you – ideas for books, your job, your business.  People are jealous of your imagination and all that it produces, in awe of your imagination, or just wonder "where it all comes from."

What these people don't get is that there's a darkside to a powerful imagination.  You have too many ideas, and it can be distracting.  You can't apply them all.  You worry you're going to miss the "right one"

Welcome to Idea Burnout.

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