Michele Pasin / Quotes

Career change: move forward not away

We often leave a job or situation because we are unhappy about something: an overbearing manager, irritating colleagues, ridiculous hours. When we make a change, however, what thoughts, beliefs and habits travel with us recreating the environment we're escaping? A change is an opportunity to become someone new, but only if we alter ourselves in the process – only changing locations will not work. Think about what you are trying to escape.

Saved 11 February 2014 / careers.theguardian.com ↗

#beliefs #thought #jobs #situation #managers

Big Data and the bureaucratization of life

As technology and Big Data advance, they enable the near-total bureaucratization of life—despite the fact that the promise of technology was exactly the…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #big-data #technology #jobs #work

Creating a startup

Setting aside for the moment that the dream and the reality of running a startup are very different things and that many of those "ideas" are likely terrible…

When You Know It's Time To Quit Your Day Job And Launch A Startup - Silicon Prairie News #jobs

Data science as a way out of academia

The most accessible job to a typical physicist cum programmer goes by the job title Data Scientist. It's also one of the more high paying jobs in technology…

How To Leave Academia #programmers #data-scientists #machine-learning #learning #jobs

Dopo il licenziamento, il demansionamento

Il problema di essere mandati via da un’azienda è spinoso. A trent’anni non è grave, si è giovani, si può trovare un’altra occupazione con relativa facilità…

Adesso basta (Simone Perotti) #work #career #companies #jobs

Good jobs go to the proactive

Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #proactivity #jobs #career

LSD and rejecting traditional mores

LSD influenced users to embrace the new counter-culture and reject traditional mores, jobs, and relationships.

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #counterculture #jobs #relationship