Diversions

A Harrison Barnes – Do What You Want To Do, Not What You Think You Should Do

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If you have a job or are pursuing a certain career primarily because you think you should, or because others think you should, you are making a huge mistake. You need to understand that if you keep doing this, you are never going to be truly happy. You need to be living the life and having the career that makes you happy. The voices that you hear inside yourself, which tell you to pursue a certain profession or be a certain thing, are often not your own voice. They are the voices of your parents; they are the voices of your peers in school; they are the voices of the people you associate with at work.

via Job Search Guru | A Harrison Barnes, Career Advice, Job Search, Change In Profession | Harrison Barnes | Try the Career Coaching Club!.

Why do you do what you do?  Easy question but sometimes you may not like the answer.

More Intelligent Life – Thought for Today 01.27.12

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Advice to people at the beginning of their careers: do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant. Grab every opportunity to take responsibility and do things for which you are unqualified.

Advice to people at the middle of their careers: do not be afraid to switch careers and try something new. As my friend the physicist Leo Szilard said (number nine in his list of ten commandments): “Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.”

via THE 60-YEAR JOB: FREEMAN DYSON | More Intelligent Life.

I really wanted to post this when I first read the article.  But I was in Chicago, sitting in a Cosi, working on a laptop that should have been replaced five years ago.  I didn’t have my usual software tools, but I digress.  I loved this advice and I know you’ll love it too.

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Norwegian Butter Crisis – Update 12.16.11

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If Norway can’t make enough butter for everyone to slather on their eller mørkt rugbrød, shouldn’t they just import butter from abroad? The supermarket downstairs from my apartment has plenty of butter. Surely we could ship some to Oslo. The problem is that the Norwegian dairy cooperative Tine has a de facto monopoly on the domestic market and is deliberately sheltered from foreign competition (PDF) as a matter of public policy.

via Pension Pulse: The Norwegian Butter Crisis?.

As I have in the past, I will credit the source for my links.  Please note this link itself links to the original article in Slate from which the quote above originates.

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