How to get to my Dream Job from here?
I was just listening to episode 55 of Spark on Work 2.0 . Like many of Nora's shows, they seem to fit into bigger things that I'm thinking about. It turns out that I've already been thinking about my own changing work situation. (Note: This is being posted to blogger as I haven't yet set up a blog that is truly intended to be 'personal') First, some background. While I was still in University I kept bumping into people who thought they wanted to hire me. I kept having the same problem: I didn't find I agreed with the choices of my employer, including things that they did and/or that they asked me to do that I felt was unethical. After going through a series of jobs where I quit based on disagreements with my employer (and them trying to give me a raise as a "solution" to the problem), I chose to become self-employed in 1995 . As my own boss I could pick and choose my clients and hopefully have a good match. I ended up working largely NGO...