Tapping into the network

[resonant]

Or: Who wants to help the Res decide what she wants to be when/if she grows up? (Not cutting because I want maximum input, but I'll try to keep it brief.)

I've been doing the exercises in What Color Is Your Parachute, and have ended up with a list of transferable skills and a list of interests.

Skills:

Analyze
Solve problems/see patterns
Evaluate
Imagine/invent
Classify/organize
Plan

Interests:

Social sciences
Design of spaces
Communication studies
Folklore
Speculative fiction
Libraries

The next step is to ask everyone I know: Do these suggest any job titles to you? Do they suggest any job fields to you?

The best job I ever had was one that I didn't know such a thing existed until I found myself interviewing for it, so I'm very open to unexpected suggestions from you brainy and extremely diverse people. (Please feel free to share this post; I'm very interested in advice from everyone, whether I know them or not.)

Comments

[old-enough.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a seriously good idea. I remember when that book came out years, ago, but at that time I was very happy in my career and didn't pay it much attention. It looks like it might be high time for me to go back and give it a try.

Right now I'm working through "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron with a group of women that I know on/from (can't decide quite which preposition is the right one to use in this case) Second Life. We are about a third of the way through the program for "discovering and recovering our creative selves", and that is going really well. Doing it through Second Life has been a great idea too. There are a ton of creative types there anyway.

I've just been feeling too exhausted by life to do anything with all of my creativity. It wasn't that I lacked creative ideas or that I felt that they weren't good; it was just that trying to apply them to anything or get them fit for sale seems like just too much work. So I'm trying to get myself re-focused and re-energized through this 12 week program.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that book! The only thing I've really used so far is the morning pages, which I've found tremendously helpful.

Isn't it funny how there are phases in your life when your hobby energizes you for work and your work energizes you for your hobby, and then times in your life when it seems like they're both pulling from one pool and there's not enough for both of them?

[old-enough.livejournal.com]

I've got to find something that gives me energy.

Right now I'm feeling terribly "introverted" about life;, where everything takes energy and nothing gives it back. So, I wind up needing to spend huge amounts of time by myself so that I can recover enough energy to deal with anything that isn't just me-related. :(

I'm sure that something will come along, and that's why I found the suggestions here so interesting. Maybe one of these ideas will be the "it" that starts providing energy!