Advice – Page 175 – Steven Savage

Why your fandom habits may help you do more in your career

November 22, 2009 by Steven Savage

Being a fan gives you all sorts of benefits for your career – gaining skills while having fun, networking with interesting people, traveling to places that may be good to relocate too. I, as is obvious, am big on Leveraged Geekery to benefit one's career and life.

It's too easy to focus on "obvious" things like, well, the above. But there's one less obvious – but very important – thing fandom does for you.

It teaches you new, useful habits habits – habits that may be good on your career or indeed to improve your whole life. Yes, in short, fandom may be making you a better person.

You just may not be aware of it.

Convention Idea – Speak to Parents, Teachers, and more

November 11, 2009 by Steven Savage

(The rest of the Convention Idea series is here).

I love convention professional events, as you've pretty much guessed. I've certainly done enough in the past, and am always looking for new things to do and new ideas.

However I noticed one thing lately – convention events focused on professional issues such as writing careers, artists, etc. focus on the people doing the work and looking for jobs. They focus in short, on the people who need the advice.

The Technology Timeshift and Careers

November 6, 2009 by Steven Savage

We all know technology has changed how the world works, careers, go, and so on and so forth. However I think one thing technology has done to careers – especially fannish and geeky ones – is that it's created an odd timeshifting effect.

Technology has the obvious effect of making a lot of things faster and easier to do and distribute to people. The upside of course is obvious – the downside is that EVERYONE is able to do and distribute more things faster. Everything is faster but the competition is the same – if not moreso.