Geek Catalog Update for 9/21/2014

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Sorry I missed last week – got sick and got hammered at work and in general was miserable-busy. When I wasn’t sleeping. I did get some updates this week to the Geek Catalog – and as always check out Geek or Community focus.

Here’s what got added this week:

 

Comics

  • Literacy
    • Reading with Pictures – Promotes literacy with the use of comics in the classroom. Heavily oriented towards ways to get involved!

Space

STEM

  • Ocean Preservation
    • Oceana – An international organization focused on sealife preservation and marine issues
  • Wildlife Preservation
    • World Wildlife Fund – Focuses on preserving and protecting wildlife and related environmental and pollution issues.

Video Games

  • History
    • Video Game History Museum – A video game history museum that covers a wide variety of subjects, histories, games, and focuses
  • Military Support
    • Military Gamers – A community and support network for military and former military gamers from the US military. Promotes healthy gaming and support.

Writing

  • Writing Skills
    • Wonder Writers – A charity that promotes writing and writing skills for young people from grades K-12.

The Dark Side Of “Do What You Love” – Skills And Abilties

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map world continents

(Steve takes a break from his usual positive approach to look at the dark side of “Do What You Love” as career advice and why it deceives, deludes, or just doesn’t cover difficulties. Ready for more cynicism peppered with advice, dive into the toxic swamp of careers again!)

OK, OK, so you heard “Do What You Love” as job advice. Well that condensed pice of career tripe doesn’t cover a lot of really hard things. We’ve looked at how it ignores your circumstances, the psychological issues it ignores or causes, and how it does nothing to help you know what the hell to do. Let’s flip the switch back to the larger world and look at locations.

Because location still is everything, and “Doing What You Love” becomes a lot harder when you realize what that means.

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Support Nasa With The Centennial Challenge

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Makers, here you go.

(And yes, I took a break from the Catalog, sorry.)

 

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, publishes books on career and culture at http://www.informotron.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.