Frustration Friday: May We Be Treated Like We’re Stupider

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We're geeks.  We're used to being treated as odd or weird, as antisocial or as "differently social", as unfathomable and hard to understand.  This is of course incredibly annoying (at least when we don't tune it out), but it conceals a far bigger annoyance.  We geeks are in danger of being labeled in another way, a way that will affect our jobs and careers and opportunities.

We're in danger of being considered too smart to give advice too.

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Fannish Skills On The Job Search – Organization

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So last week we talked about how your fan-based networking skills may help on the job search.  There's oe more issue I want to address – and its a skillset that many geeks, fans, otaku, gamers, etc. develop in their hobbies that they don't realize nearly enough.

Organization.

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The Young And Hungry Fanartists

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I'm noticing a trend at a lot of conventions I've been to lately.  I see a lot of young artists in the dealer's rooms and artist's alleys with a few things in common:

  • They've started selling their art in the last 1-3 years.
  • They have gorgeous, professional business cards and signage.
  • They're reasonably to very-well wired, with websites, porfolios online, and the like.
  • They do a lot of personal branding, even going so far as to dress to fit the theme of their table.
  • Their tables are professionally laid out with the right signage, decoration, and so on.
  • They're big on cross-promoting projects they do together, or with others.

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