Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
(This is a guest post by Lauren Orsini. Thanks Lauren!)
When I was unemployed, my worst enemy was time. It was tough to shift from my identity as a constantly multitasking graduate student to suddenly being a part-time minimum wage cashier living with my parents. I suddenly had hours of free time, which you’d think would be a blessing. But a lack of routine just made me lazy and depressed.
I needed to find something to bring structure and purpose back to my life, and fast.
So I went to HyperCon over the weekend, a convention thrown by local artist, art educator, and entrepreneur Bordin Marsinkul. It was an interesting first con, I did some presentations, and I got to see some innovative ideas as well. Let's take a look!
You go to cons and there is a cosplay competition.
Online there's art competitions.
Wargaming conventions have endless battles.
Fandom, for all its friendly nature, likes a good bit of competition. it's fun, it's challenging, it's exciting, it gets people going.
So I've been speculating – could this friendly competition be used towards the cause of progeekery? Could we channel friendly fannish compettion to help people in their careers?