The Fan To Pro Manifesto

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Our true interests and abilities can be determined by looking at what we are passionate about: the things we fan over, geek out over, our hobbies and fandoms.
   
Our careers are best directed by our true interests and abilities.
   
By examining our hobbies, interests, and pastimes we may gain insight into ourselves – our passions, our abilities, our knowledge, and our connections.
   
By applying what we learn about ourselves from our hobbies and interests, we may achieve more fulfilling careers and lives.
   

To not do this is to limit ourselves.

– Steven Savage

Pop Culture On The Job: The Things You’ve learned.

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One of the things we've talked about here is the advantages pop culture knowledge provides to people in their jobs.  I've decided it's worth taking some time just to explore why it's useful.  Or in short, all that knowledge in your head about video games, manga, movies, and sports is probably a lot more useful than you realized.

Let's see how you can apply it, and the first thing is . . .

You know what succeeded and what has failed.

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Fame: The Fifteen Minutes Has Changed

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I'm not a big fan of fame for fame's sake.  Fame is vastly overrated if you ask me – and if you don't want to ask me, spend ten minutes online searching for celebrity meltdowns, famous scandals, and the like.  You'll quickly realize fame really is kind of overrated, and is too often transformed into infamy.

On the other hand, fame is a very useful tool – if you pursue it with the intent of actually using it.  Being known gets you jobs, gets you contracts, gets you roles, and so on.  Fame as a tool, where you are it's master not the other way around is quite useful.

So frankly, you're going to have to confront the issue of fame in your life and career – can you use it, how do you want to use it, how do you get the right kind, etc.

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