advice – Page 13 – Steven Savage

Do You Have a Career Best Friend?

May 31, 2010 by Steven Savage

Do you have a Career Best Friend? Someone to talk to for advice? Someone to bounce career ideas off of? Someone who can talk to you about their career? Someone you share professional experiences with?

We all need a career best friend – or friends – because for careerists life can get awful complex. We can get lost in a maze of certifications and job data, we may need a boost, we may need someone to shoot down a harebrained idea. We also need someone who we are truly friends with to do that, since otherwise we're probably not going to listen to them.

Time to Put the Money First?

May 17, 2010 by Steven Savage

So you have a job that pays well, but it's not you. This job isn't geeky enough, it isn't quite what you want, even with that great paycheck. You should get out, right?

Not necessarily.

If Instead of Cannot

May 2, 2010 by Steven Savage

Many years ago, when I was a Senior Programmer with a consulting company, one of my clients commented that I never said anything was impossible – I never said "No, it cannot be done."

Now of course there are times in my career I have said no. And when I said things could be done, I also noted the costs – which is a way of saying "I can do this, but boy is it going to cost you or disappoint you." However the fact is that in your career, "it cannot be done" is not something you want to say to anyone – including yourself.