Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
So fandom teaches you business sense, customer service, entrepreneurship, and courage. All traits and "metaskills" that are useful in your career once you see just how much you've gained from your hobbies and activities.
So after discussing these over the past weeks, let me add one final thing to the list of what traits hobbies give you (or bring out in you) that you can use on your job.
Proper Fanaticism.
So last week we discussed how fandom teaches you good business sense, one of those useful "general skills" you'll need in your life. This week we'll explore another thing fandom teaches you.
Customer Service.
As I noted previously, many fandom activities are run like businesses – conventions, websites, etc. They may not make money, of course – they may not be intended to – but they are like businesses in almost all regards. Thus they are very educational to work on because you learn good business sense.
The problem with the job search is that we think of it as something we do and that's it. We think of it as an effort, and an effort we hopefully get done with. We're wrong.
A job search is applying a skill – the skill of doing an effective job searching.