Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Surprises are a key to your career.
That of course sounds like a shocking statement, doesn't it? Aren't we supposed to plan our careers and navigate them carefully? How is it that surprise can help you with your career? How can sheer randomness help you?
For that matter surprises are, well, surprising. How do you work those into your career?
Networking can seem to take an awful lot of time – especially if you're new to it. Businesses cards, emails, meetups, seminars – it all adds up. Networking can end up looking like a giant time consuming drag, an endless drudge hoping to find that one right contact.
Actually, networking is not about extensive activities, endless emails, and all that. Networking is about the power of five minutes.
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.