Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
UseYourGeekery – where the future is.
What you do. What you create. Who you work for. Where you work. Who you work with. All ways to channel your hobbies, fantoms, obsession, geekery, and otakudom into careers. All specific ways to turn what you like into a job and a life.
But there's one more way you can use your interests to create a job, career, and even a new profession. You can base your job, your place of work, your career on where you see the future going.
We all know the old trope about work – you get a job or series of jobs, save money, perhaps get a pension, and retire to lea a nice life in your 60's.
Of course by now we've seen this is an illusion for too many people, and many solid retirements have become mirages in the Great Recession. However, more than this illusion, I think that the idea of work-then-retire has been toxic to people's careers for another reason: it led them to take jobs they hate.
So you want to use your geeky interests on the job. We've talked what you do, what you create, and who you work for – all areas of your career where your interests, hobbies, and obsessions can be leveraged.
We're now going to talk about where.