Well, I can truthfully report that Al Secunda’s 15 Second Principle works for me - in the form of using it to finally release the audio interview I did with him some weeks ago now.
Ever the latent perfectionist, I soon noticed the urge to do anything but publish the d^%n thing!
Such as:
editing it with Audacity [...]
Sometimes children can be an unexpected and innocent source of great career change advice.
Case in point.
When my wife asked how went day 1 of my IT consulting gig, my daughter aka Princess Smiley (she’s crazy about Miley Cyrus) came straight out with:
“Do you actually do stuff on your computer at work?”
Wow!
Now there’s a reflective [...]
Want the secret of career or vocational enlightenment in just 1 word?
Awareness.
And in 2 words?
Awareness. Awareness.
How about a whole 3 words?
Awareness. Awareness. Awareness.
“Get the picture?”
“Feel the vibe?”
“Hear the music?”
Since we’re equipped with sensory perception it kinda makes sense to twiddle the dials now and again - you never know what you might tune into.
For instance, [...]
Corporate personal development plans (PDP) might not always be the most exciting of topics to blog about, but there are 2 important points embedded within how PDPs function that potential career changers ought to consider:
a) 50% of the ‘big’ projects you will be ‘asked’ (more like ‘tasked’!) to do during the year will never make [...]
Day 1 in a large air-conditioned office and I soon recall why my thirst has returned - the temperature’s showing north of 22C.
Now that may be optimal for most everyone else but I’ve just come from winter months in my north-facing home office where it was between 13-17C depending on time of day.
Wearing fingerless gloves, [...]
For the past 10 months my weekday morning routine kicked off with a leisurely breakfast around 8am, followed by a walk in the park with Kuri.
Not so Monday 18th February.
On that morning I wrote the outline of this post while riding the 8:11am train to my 6 month consulting IT gig.
Or rather, it was 8:11am [...]
I found Bruce Judson’s book, “Go It Alone!” very useful when planning my own career change.
The entire book is online for ‘free‘ at Bruce’s site and worth spending the time to go through relevant chapters and take a few notes.
Two chapters stick out in my mind:
8 - Managing Extreme Outsourcing.
11- When To Quit Your Day [...]
Enjoy the 1st speed ride down the Eiger!
The Song is “Strengthen Your Mind” by Dezaire.
What’s all this got to do with career change?
You tell me!
But I reckon what happens at 2m 25s is a good representation of a mid-life crisis!
- Mark McClure
PS - Tons more speed riding videos at their Acro-base website.
I found they didn’t [...]
Today is the 3rd day of the 3rd month in the lunar calendar and I can’t resist making a comment on the Japanese Dolls festival, also known as “Girls Day”.
That Japan is a modern country is taken for granted these days but there remain many traditions and customs still woven into her cultural fabric.
For example, [...]
