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By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Get a Better Job without Job Hopping «

Web Worker Daily » Archive Get a Better Job without Job Hopping « — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:00:24 +0000

[...] Refactoring Your Career [...]

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Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Web Worker Daily Staff Changes « — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:00:34 +0000

[...] issues relevant to anyone using the web to work better. He writes from experience, having recently refactored his career to move from Microsoft development to Ruby on Rails. He also maintains a website full of tips for [...]

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change » Refactoring Your Career — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:35:43 +0000

[...] Original post by Mike Gunderloy [...]

By: The InterChange Desk: Career change and Job search advice for the transitioning worker » Blog Archive » Back to the future with Jerry Maguire!

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:09:49 +0000

[...] Refactoring Your Career is an article that runs a little a long the lines of my 10° career change article, in that it suggests making small changes until you reach the place you want to be. Software releases are subtly changed or “refactored” overtime, which end users seldom notice as it still appears to carry out the same function. Think of how software like Word or Excel has changed over time for example. [...]

By: Geek | Manager » Invest in Yourself

Geek | Manager » Invest in Yourself — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:07:31 +0000

[...] recent article about refactoring your career made me think back to when I first read “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. For those who [...]

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Meriblog: Meri Williams’ Weblog » links for 2007-03-14 — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:03:18 +0000

[...] Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Refactoring Your Career « Interesting article about slowly changing your career via refactoring. (tags: advice business career development entrepeneurship freelance ideas jobs work) [...]

By: Interesting Finds - 3/08/2007

Interesting Finds - 3/08/2007 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:27:03 +0000

[...] Gunderloy over at Web Worker Daily writes on “Refactoring Your Career:” Like it or not, we need to keep working even while we change the work that we’re [...]

By: NBN - Nothing But Net » 重構你的職涯

NBN - Nothing But Net » 重構你的職涯 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:53:28 +0000

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By: GigaOM » What’s On GigaNET

GigaOM » What’s On GigaNET — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:49:47 +0000

[...] WebWorkerDaily: If you don’t love your job, that’s all the more reason to change what you’re doing. [...]

By: greatsales

greatsales — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:35:27 +0000

Excellent article. I can see how this applies to any career. Even in sales and marketing, there are always new things to learn, new products to learn about, and updated ways of approaching your profession. Sales in many cases turns out to be a “freelance” situation, which is also the preferred approach as opposed to working “in house”.

By: Paula G

Paula G — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:18:10 +0000

Great article. As someone in the middle of the two jobs or more at once — starting a business (well 2) on the side while being prisoner to the cube by day, it takes juggling. The good news is over time it should pay off for a new career entirely. Life is too short to be stuck in jobs you hate.

Ruthless Self-Criticism and 20% time are right on the mark. Take time every day to move toward the change you wish to see and momentum will build and so will expertise. That is how I changed careers twice. And, the whole career thing is a distance run, not a sprint anyway.

By: mathew

mathew — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:23:37 +0000

even if you do love your job, in the big scheme of things you should think about opportunity cost and think about whether there is a better job that you might like more that might make you richer.
http://mattishness.blogspot.com/2007/03/invest-in-your-own-startup.html

By: 12 Hours of Power » Refactoring you career…(at what sacrifice?)

12 Hours of Power » Refactoring you career…(at what sacrifice?) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:30:12 +0000

[...] we need articles like Web Worker Daily’s “Refactoring Your Career” to give us that helpful push in the right direction for success. But a few things came to [...]

By: Susan Kitchens

Susan Kitchens — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:04:09 +0000

It seems to me that refactoring has been a constant, for me. Either that, or my skillset resembles several fingers in several different pies.

What I find daunting about the jumble is how to represent it to the world at large. I’ve found myself pausing uncomfortably when it comes to “elevator speech” time, tho “digital renaissance woman” seems to do the trick.

I don’t know if I need a Jedi Mind Trick to overcome this, but when seeking new gigs, when I see the call for someone with deep experience in realm T (and a resume to match), I hesitate. I’ve a peripatetic history in several disciplines, which does include experience in realm T.. as well as realm Q, R, S and U and W.

By: Career “Refactoring” — What Engineers Know That Lawyers Don’t « Erik Mazzone’s Blog

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:46:06 +0000

[...] has a fantastic blog post on the Web Worker Daily about how to refactor your career. Check it out here. “Refactoring” is a software development term meaning to make incremental [...]

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:41:49 +0000

Random question: Are there any plans to offer a full feed for this blog? I personally find the partial feeds rather annoying and as a result I only learn a fraction of the information you share because I don’t want to have to click on every article just to see if it’s work reading and applicable to my situation.

In regard to the post, I’ve seen my career change as I’ve gradually narrowed down where my interests lie and how I like to work. Over the course of several years (and I’m still in the process) I’ve been able to make a huge turn in where my career was headed from a path that was simply profitable to one that is profitable AND profoundly interesting to me.