Part VII - How to Level Up Your Weird Internet Career
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- Author: allthingslinguistic
- Full Title: Part VII - How to Level Up Your Weird Internet Career
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Highlights
Even though all Weird Internet Careers are different, there are often people who are a notch or two ahead of you on a similar-enough trajectory that you think, dang, I bet this person knows what I should be doing next (View Highlight)
My suggestions are google, following your would-be mentors for a while on social media, and looking through their website/archives for anything that might be relevant (such as what they were doing when they were at your earlier stage). (View Highlight)
Any time you write down advice, also write down the name of the person giving it to you so you remember who to follow up with. Don’t skip out on the reporting step, even if some time has gone by or it didn’t quite go as planned or you’re not sure about how good your thing is. Make a good-faith effort to do the thing; report back on how it went (View Highlight)review
People sometimes don’t report back because they’re worried about annoying a person they admire. This is valid, but untrue: reporting back is actually providing emotional gratification. The report back is the absolute best part. Advice-givers love to feel like it was actually worth it rather than throwing their advice down a bottomless pit (View Highlight)review
You might or might not ask them for advice again at some point in the future, but either way they think of you with a positive memory as “that person who sent me a lovely thank-you message after they took my very good advice” rather than “that person who I gave a bunch of advice to but who knows if they ever did anything with it.” (View Highlight)review
In short, if you want people to think you’re an interesting person who’s worth connecting with interesting opportunities, you need to actually make things and put them out there. No one knows how interesting you are if you keep your interestingness inside your head. Referrals only go so far: I can’t make other people become a fan of you if you’re not making anything for them to be a fan of. (View Highlight)review
In short, if you want people to think you’re an interesting person who’s worth connecting with interesting opportunities, you need to actually make things and put them out there. No one knows how interesting you are if you keep your interestingness inside your head. Referrals only go so far: I can’t make other people become a fan of you if you’re not making anything for them to be a fan of. (View Highlight)review