Career Brainstorming: Quantity Over Quality

I love career brainstorming.  I love how people dream up new ideas for jobs and careers, how they see paths they didn't see before, how they see old ideas in new ways.  When I speak on careers or run brainstorming events, seeing what people dream up is amazing and enthralling.

You probably know what it's like to brainstorm for yourself as well – the research, the dreaming up new businesses and new places to work, coming up with new things to do.  However you're also likely to restrain yourself a bit, hold back, look for quality ideas so as not to waste your time.

Don't.

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Combining Careers And Interests: Be Where the Future Is

UseYourGeekery – where the future is.

What you doWhat you createWho you work forWhere you workWho you work with.  All ways to channel your hobbies, fantoms, obsession, geekery, and otakudom into careers.  All specific ways to turn what you like into a job and a life.

But there's one more way you can use your interests to create a job, career, and even a new profession.  You can base your job, your place of work, your career on where you see the future going.

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Interruptions To Your Career Path

You've planned out your career course.  You've got an idea of where you are and where you want to go.  Spreadsheets and notes and documents and dog-eared books mark the way to your future.

That planned career course gets interrupted.  You move.  You change jobs.  The economy is ruined by stupid and greedy people.  Your plan is temporarily derailed, perhaps horribly so.

Of course once it's derailed, you get right back on your career plan.  You're no quitter, you won't stop, you won't give up.

Have you ever considered the fact maybe you should?

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