career

Do You Have a Career Best Friend?

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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.

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Don’t Define Your Career In Negatives

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I'm certain you've been asked by others (and asked yourself), what your career is 'about" or "what you do."  If you haven't, chances are you're reading this blog by accident.

Anyway, when you're asked (or ask yourself) that question, I'm sure you can spout forth a list.  There's what you do, who you interact with, and what you don't do.  We often are aware of the former, but I find people will often go into lists of what they don't do, what their career is not about, with surprising ease.  It's almost as if we are more aware of the positives than the negatives.

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Combining Careers and Interests: What You Do?

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(This is a launch of anew series on ways people can reconcile their interests, hobbies, fandom, and geekery with their careers.  In it I will explore the different options we have to turn what we love into what we make a living at).

One of the surest ways to combine what you like to do with how you make money is this:

Do something you enjoy doing for a living skill-wise.

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