Career

Finding your Ideal Pace

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Ever know someone who works slower than you (and drives you crazy?) or faster than you (and drives you crazy?).  Do you look at these people and wonder if you're overworking or underworking?

Let me put your mind at ease – we all have our ideal work pace.  We just have to find it.

I myself like to keep up constant activity, punctuated by breaks, with a decently full plate.  I know other people who ONLY work in huge, long, multi-day bursts of insane effort.  I know others who like slow and steady.  Everyone's different.

If you want to be a success, in your hobbies or your career, you need to find your ideal pace.

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Weekly Challenge – Mirror, Mirror

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Here's your weekly challenge.  We're going to get a bit psychological.

I want you to ask yourself, what your complete opposite is like. What's the "you" from the Mirror Universe, Bizarro World, whatever fictional opposite-land you prefer as a metaphor.  Who is this other you? what motivates them? What do they do – and what don't they do? What is their daily life like?

Once you have a good image of this UnYou, ask yourself a few questions:

  • What is it that they do that you wish you did or should?
  • What is it that you do they don't that you're proud of?
  • Is this alternate you happier or sadder than you?  Why?
  • What do they do for a living, and does it work?
  • What do they do for fun, and why?  Does it make them happy?
  • What can you learn from them and what can they learn from you?

This week, take a look in the mirror and find out what you learn.

(Though I won't go into much detail on my experience with this exercise, I realized I was much happier than my opposite.)

– Steven Savage

Convention Idea – Presentations on Certifications

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The roundup of convention ideas is here.

So what certifications are the pro-fans at your con interested in?

People who want careers based around their interests and obsessions have many steps to follow – education, employment, portfolio building, etc.  Missing from this list in all too many cases are professional certifications, except, perhaps in the IT field (and even then they can get overlooked).  Even though certifications can make a difference in a job search (as I have seen firsthand), they do get forgotten all too easily.

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