So you want to use your geeky interests on the job. We've talked what you do, what you create, and who you work for – all areas of your career where your interests, hobbies, and obsessions can be leveraged.
We're now going to talk about where.
Career
Try The Drive
Many years ago, when a company in Boston was interviewing me, I got lost driving. Deliberately.
My reason was not any form of masochism – I was considering a relocation to Boston. If you're going to move to an area, one of the ways to get familiar with it, intimately familiar with it is to drive through it if at all possible.
Do You Have a Career Best Friend?
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.