A Career Plan

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:01:17 +0000

I've made several career plans for myself before, but I don't think I've ever done it in a formal manner. I've never said to myself "I should make a career plan" until I was sitting in Martin Fisher's "How to Hack the Career Development Life Cycle" at B-Sides Atlanta. It had always been more of a "I want to do this, so first I need to learn this technology" kind of mentality. However, Martin's talk really made me think. In some ways, it was sort of unsettling, but I think it can be unsettling anytime you start to really think about the direction your life is going. I had a sort of "life passing me by" feeling by the end of the presentation (through no fault of his -- it was a great presentation, with some great takeaways.) I'm hoping making myself this transparent doesn't come back to bite me later, but I'm also hoping that this transparency might get me some feedback from my more experienced readers. (Insert "what readers?" joke here.)

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A Career Plan