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Part I - What is a Weird Internet Career?
Weird Internet Careers are the kinds of jobs that are impossible to explain to your parents, people who somehow make a living from the internet, generally involving a changing mix of revenue streams. Weird Internet Career is a term I made up (it had no google results in quotes before I started using it), but once you start noticing them, you'll see
... See morefrom Weird Internet Careers by Jason Kottke
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Because Internet’s Gretchen McCulloch defines ‘weird internet career’
- The internet turned every obsession into a possible career path.
from The Power of Deleting 99% of Your To-Do List by Tim Denning
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My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is mor
... See morefrom Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist by Kevin Kelly
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"Weirdness is what sets us apart, gets us hired.”
“Be your unapologetically weird self. In fact, being weird may even find you the ultimate happiness"
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- So, what the internet does is allows any niche obsession, which could be just the weirdest thing. It could be like people who collect snakes, to like people who like to ride hot air balloons, to people who like to sail around the world by themselves, just one person on a craft, or someone who’s obsessed with miniature cooking. Like, there’s this wh... See more
from The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities by Naval Ravikant
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I found a career groove that almost satisfies all 5 “salaries:” educational, social, psychological, freedom… the financials aren’t quite there, but they’re getting close. Even though I’m least inclined to treat a passion like a business, it feels important to get this right; it creates a baseline that everything else stems from. If I can make a con
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