The Nonlinear Career Path – Episode 57

When a Unicorn raises their hoof, the Geek Whisperers get them in front of the mic.

In another career path conversation, we’re joined by Mike Stanley who’s taken a career path less traveled. From aspiring to be a Latin teacher to learning Russian in the Army to … IT? We take a personal look into Mike’s career path, discussing where it started and where it’s going.

We discuss:

• Careers
• How you get where you’re going
• What it means to be an “IT Generalist”
• The projected shortfall of IT jobs
• Is IT training or a degree the right move in IT?
• Salary as part of the career question
• To VAR and back to end customer
• CS degrees in Enterprise IT
• Work/Life balance
• Local vs global interactions
• The power of groups of people
• Joe Onisick (past guest) helping via Twitter
• BJ Fogg – Tiny Habits
• Transition advice

Mike makes a powerful statement to vendors on the best way to use social media to gain leads –

“Interesting technical content followed up by real human interaction.”

What’s your career story? What did you learn from Mike’s?

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