In fact, I created a whole company that has been in business for one year.
It's been a wild ride.
But unfortunately, I never did blog about it.
Signing off,
Lisa Steele
Chief Creative Officer
Cleverplumb.com
My Company
Monday, October 15, 2012
Friday, November 4, 2011
Create your own damn credentials. Create your own damn job.
After being out of work for nearly two years it's time to get back into the game. Only I don't want to play the same game. I want to play a new game, but I don't know what that game is. I mean, I have some ideas. So maybe I do know. Maybe this confusion is a "pretend" confusion?
In any case, I found the first clue about how to proceed just today while reading Tim Ferriss's popular Four Hour Work Week Blog. He had guest blogger, Michael Ellsberg, share about how to intelligently go about skill building for a new career, and how to learn proper networking techniques to get the inside track on actually landing the job. Lots of great tips on networking were shared in a slightly long and badly shot video Michael did while speaking at the Thiel Fellowship Retreat. Bad lighting and choppy editing be damned, I drank up everything he said, and for the first time, I didn't get that "queasy" feeling I normally get when people tell me I will have to learn how to "network" in order to land a dream job.
Oh and one other disclosure. One of the sections of Michael's blog post was titled, "Create your own damn credentials. Create your own damn job." Those words were the inspiration for the title of this blog. Cause frankly, I needed a kick in the pants to get the ball rolling and maybe you do too.
So, I am following Michael's advice and I'm starting my own blog to document the journey of this next year that I will spend designing my own educational curriculum and completing a practicum in this as yet unidentified new career.
What do you know? My new accountability partner is my blog.
Michael Ellsberg at the Thiel Fellowship Retreat from Michael Ellsberg on Vimeo.
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