Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
So you want that extra experience in fandom for your career. You want to hone your skills doing something you like so you can someday get paid for it. You want to learn while having fun.
Of course you want these things, but how do you do it?
Simple. Start a fandom job search.
We are nerds, geeks and otaku. We love technology. We love gadgets. We're into them. We're fully 100% out as raging technophiles. From the youngest geek to the oldest profan and protaku, we love our gizmos.
We use technology all the time. We take our gaming systems on the train to kill time. We take our smartphones to conventions to stay in touch and take photos. We take our iPad to our job interviews to overwhelm people with how cool we are.
In many cases, we may realize that technology says something about us. Having a DS is an invitation to trade Pokemon (even if you don't play it). A smartphone will lead people to assume you have a GPS (which they may not tell you until they're lost). An iPad says you're cutting edge and have spare cash. We usually enjoy what these things say about us.
I like to use the things I geek out over in my career, which is somewhat obvious by the fact I help run a blog about the very subject. I'm a big advocate that hobbies, jobs, and interests really should be mostly the same thing.
However, it's too easy to get caught up in our own obsessions, our own geeky, our own fanning. Sure we can learn a lot from our obsession with video games, our passion for digital art, and our interest in writing.
However if you really want to be a passionate fan-to-pro type you need to study the geekery of others.