Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Welcome to my new series – a series on Promoting Professional Geekery.
We, as profans, progeeks, and protaku take pride in our dreams – and achievements – to turn our interests into careers. We build ourselves into our own ideals, we realize dreams others aspire to, we turn the daily grind into something far more.
It's time we promote that.
When I attend various conventions, I keep becoming aware of various odd age gaps among fans, geeks, and otaku. Since i'm used to moving among various cultures, age groups, and fandoms, these things become apparent quickly.
I often advise people to go where the geeks are career-wise because, let's face it – I speak to geeks. I'm about geeky people doing geeky things, fans doing fans doing fannish things, otaku doing . . . otakunoid things? Well, anyway, conjugation aside you know the drill – I'm about people going where they find likeminded folks and do professions that fit their interests.
But my recent columns on HR got me thinking. I've advised folks to deal with HR by upping their geek game and leveraging technology and knowledge to work around the flaws in the world of the job search. I'm thinking now I've thought too small.