Thursday, August 28, 2008

About Today: Can You Turn Your Hobby Into a Career?

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  from Jen Hubley
Way back when I was a lowly English major, I took a career development course. The inspiration for this was that I was pretty sure that I was going to wind up unemployed in a gutter somewhere, with only the Riverside Shakespeare to comfort me. The class itself wasn't very helpful. (Short version: The instructor pretty much told me I was right.)

 
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Can You Turn Your Hobby Into a Career?
Actually, what she told me was that I should become a technical writer. Given that I had to ask a friend to set up my DVD player, this seemed like a mistake.

 
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Instead I opted to try to make what I do anyway - write stuff unrelated to technical things - into a real actual job. Those of you who have recently had to use appliance instructions should be very grateful.

 
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Figuring out what you want to do is one thing. Making it happen? Totally a whole other animal. What I've learned is that you have to hit the job search on as many fronts as possible.

 
 
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