Feeling tired? Burnt out? Yet you can't see why? You're doing well in this troubled economy and times, better than many people you know? Why are you so tired?
Have you checked to see if you're at the top of your support network?
Advice
Wisdom Rot
Remember that great advice you got ten years ago that is entirely irrelevant to your career and you wonder why you're still following it? Remember that industry that would be perfect for your career that is now a smoking economic ruin of failed dreams, bad ideas, and lawsuits against the accounting firms?
Or do you remember that piece of advice that stuck with you since childhood? That helpful concept that you got from someone much older than you that got it from some else?
We get experiences and advice that are useful for our lives, and useful at best for a limited time. Some things are seemingly forever – some lessons are not.
What IS a Fannish Project?
I often talk about the fact that fandom is great because it lets people do projects and learn from them. However, I want to take a bit of time to define just what a project IS – and its counterpart, the Continuing Effort.
The reason I want to do that is simple – if you can understand what a project is, you can't easily analyze your fannish activities to determine which one's you've done. Without doing that it's harder to assess or build your skills and experiences.