how do you communicate with someone at a different stage in their journey?
we see too much of the end product on social media. a culture of perfection. celebrating the successes. but what about the process? how do we start the journey?
that's why I practice many different things. my music journey is different from my healing journey is different from my software career journey. so it helps me to communicate with people at different stages of a journey.
we all need to share more of the process.
I remember a couple years ago reading about all these developers “maxing their TC” on reddit. Then go on LinkedIn and see “how to land a job in faang without a degree”. then on YouTube it would be “a day in the life working at FAANG”. Instagram coding influencers everywhere. everywhere you looked you felt like you weren't good enough.
you are good enough. you are on your own journey. maybe you look at them and see the job and money you wish you had. but maybe they look at you and see the friend they wish they were. we're all out here living full lives.
I've been trying to make time to practice making music in the evenings. I combine the act of creating music with full body movements, dancing while I play and edit the songs I make. It's been fun building this process for myself and watching it grow over the past 2 years. it helps me relate to someone who maybe started learning to code 2 years ago and is building a practice routine in that part of their life.
communication
I've experienced getting new jobs in this digital economy but I've never experienced starting a career in the digital economy and so how do you relate to someone in that experience. how do you help someone who you can't relate to?
Early career for me looks so much different than someone facing an early career right now. What will work for them? Is the advice I'm giving relevant? What skills are needed in the today's tech workforce?
What is a timeless skill? Communication. It all boils down to communication. How can you communicate with different people who've lived different experiences? We don't need as many raw coders. we need people who can adapt and learn new skills, and communicate ideas.
meeting people in person is still probably the way to go to find jobs at least earlier in your career because you have to look at getting in front of a human is the hardest part at that stage of your career and so if you can get in front of 10 people real humans at a hiring event or something like that how long would it take for you to actually get in touch with 10 humans by applying online
and by applying online you're not building a online presence you're filling out information that is going into a private list for this company and you know they may never even review that so put your work into your online presence where it'll always be there anyone can view it at any time and you know on your resume and everything just just link to your whether it's LinkedIn or a personal site or whatever