It’s one of the fastest ways to get your career trajectory shoot upwards. Look at the attached mindmap to understand it!
This is what’s inside:
Not having a side hustle
Situation
- Your competition is doing stuff that’s ‘cutting edge’
- You’re in a place where you can’t do much
- Your market value is dropping/plummeting
- Your skills are outdated
- You’re at the top of what you do at your workplace, but the market has moved on
- You’re trapped in a golden cage
- Companies are not keen on hiring you
- There are others who will do more/better for less
Cause
- You’ve not kept up your skill building
- Focused on maintaining the status quo
- You’re not aware of/have hands on experience the latest developments in your field
- Sometimes, things change REALLY fast
- You don’t have a chance to try these new things out
- It’s on your todo list
- You’re waiting for permission
- You want to make a ‘business case’
Answer
- Build up a safe place for you to experiment
- This is above and beyond what you do at work
- Build up a sandbox where you can try other things out
- Do this publicly
- Have an environment where you can make mistakes and learn
- Package these as projects
Result
- After a while…
- You have a list of failures and successes to use for personal branding
- You always learn something
- You have hands on experience in the latest technologies/techniques/ideas
- You can use these as reference points
- You have a platform that can boost your visibility, authority and reputation
- This is a powerful personal branding tool
- You could have a following and a property that you can leverage for career growth
- This could become your entire career one day
- You have a list of failures and successes to use for personal branding
Your Turn
- Go ahead and start your own side hustle/project
- Have many ideas? Pick the one where you’re going to learn more
- Choose the one that provides maximum opportunity for cross pollination
- Choose a platform that works for you
- Podcast
- Can start with your smartphone
- Blog
- Can start with your smartphone
- Open Source Project
- Start one
- Contribute to one
- Doesn’t have to be tech
- Common Voice by Mozilla
- Librivox
- YouTube Channel
- Can start with your smartphone
- Mission/Charity
- Volunteer
- Apply your skills to their organization
- Podcast
- Figure out a mission/goal
- Don’t think of it as a program
- Projects have higher survival rates
- Document your progress
- Make it public
- Hold yourself accountable
Join Us
- Run by Arvindh Sundar
- Goal: Increase Job Security, Reduce Career Risk And Win At Work With E.P.I.C Transformations
- Mission: Liberate a million millennials from an unsatisfying career
- Get in touch at arvindh@epiccareerlabs.com
- There’s a course that can help fix most of these
- Did you know?
- These and more are available once you join the email list!
- You can take an assessment to figure out your career risk level too
- There’s a bigger version of this document that explains how to fix these things as well!
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