Career

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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Geeky Resumes and More: Know Your Audience

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Video resumes.  Retaggr cards.  Portfolios on lovely-labeled DVDs.  LinkedIn.com profiles.  Personal web pages.

What counts as a "resume" today seems to be a collection of items and supplements, all swirling around the actual print (or electronic resume).  Today's resume is an amorphous, complex thing, that's frankly confusing – because there's just so many amazing and cool things we can do.  Let's call them "Resume Materials"

Some of us remember when all you needed was a cover letter and a resume and maybe a portfolio because that was all you could do.  Making a videotape or a Flash presentation and the like just wasn't something people did in their job searched.  Of course what people do now has been empowered by all the technology that . . . well people like us are using.

There's a lot of options for the progeeks out there to go beyond a simple resume and into a crazy world of amazing resume materials..  However, there's an important question to ask before you burn the DVDs, make the video interview, and soforth.

That question is . . . does it actually do any good?

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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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