{"id":1088,"date":"2015-06-03T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2015-06-03T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:54:11","slug":"how-to-recognize-your-career-options-ep-88-waneel-lakhani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/2015\/06\/how-to-recognize-your-career-options-ep-88-waneel-lakhani\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Recognize Your Career Options &#8211; Ep 88 w\/Aneel Lakhani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Geek Whisperers is 50% in person. Matt is in the same room as\u00a0Aneel Lakhani (<span style=\"line-height: 1.8;\">blog at <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.8;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aneelism.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Aneelism<\/a>\u00a0\/ Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/aneel\" target=\"_blank\">@aneel<\/a>) thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/gluecon.com\" target=\"_blank\">GlueCon<\/a> and we dig into career paths in an entirely new light.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/341a197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1091\" src=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/341a197.jpg\" alt=\"Aneelism\" width=\"303\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/341a197.jpg 303w, http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/341a197-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/341a197-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aneel is in\u00a0Marketing (at <a href=\"https:\/\/signalfx.com\" target=\"_blank\">SignalFx<\/a>) yet has more\u00a0than enough tech cred to take a different approach. He&#8217;s found, on\u00a0his winding career path, that trying out new jobs is essential to finding what makes you happy.<\/p>\n<p>We talk about\u00a0pivoting your own career as we explore Aneel&#8217;s time as a sysadmin, analyst and much more\u00a0in between. You&#8217;ll hear about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understanding your job options<\/li>\n<li>Reviewing what skills you bring to the table<\/li>\n<li>How schools don\u2019t teach you to understand job choices<\/li>\n<li>What a Computer Science degree prepares you for<\/li>\n<li>How he has been full time in\u00a0IT since before having a drivers license<\/li>\n<li>The specialized skill set of talking technical to non-technical people<\/li>\n<li>The false dichotomy between Big\u00a0Company life or \u201cnothing else\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Learning your adjacent disciplines in order to move<\/li>\n<li>Empathizing by doing the job<\/li>\n<li>Doing the job you think people are doing poorly at<\/li>\n<li>How you&#8217;d have to fire\u00a0Aneel\u00a0to stop him from\u00a0doing the job<\/li>\n<li>How if you want a job, you should be able to start doing it right now<\/li>\n<li>The incredible power of Twitter to connection people<\/li>\n<li>Intent on Twitter<\/li>\n<li>Frogger\u00a0as a metaphor for careers<\/li>\n<li>John being inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbarasher.com\/about.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Sher&#8217;s books<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Llama farming as a service<\/li>\n<li>Maximizing your optionality<\/li>\n<li>Creating serendipity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We would love to hear about what you&#8217;ve found your options to be and what you hope to get exposed to in the future. 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Matt is in the same room as\u00a0Aneel Lakhani (blog at Aneelism\u00a0\/ Twitter @aneel) thanks to GlueCon and we dig into career paths in an entirely new light.\u00a0 Aneel is in\u00a0Marketing (at SignalFx) yet has more\u00a0than enough tech cred to take a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/2015\/06\/how-to-recognize-your-career-options-ep-88-waneel-lakhani\/\">Read All Show Notes<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Recognize Your Career Options &#8211; Ep 88 w\/Aneel Lakhani<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7086\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1088-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Aneel-on-Maximizing-Your-Optionality-Ep-88.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Aneel-on-Maximizing-Your-Optionality-Ep-88.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Aneel-on-Maximizing-Your-Optionality-Ep-88.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Aneel-on-Maximizing-Your-Optionality-Ep-88.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1088-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Aneel-on-Maximizing-Your-Optionality-Ep-88.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Aneel-on-Maximizing-Your-Optionality-Ep-88.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}