Career Adventure Guide

Our Career Adventure Guide

Welcome to 2022 and beyond.  We are here to help you make 2022 a Joyous Adventure.  And we’re here to help you build skills and strengths to get you unstuck and moving in a bolder, more energized direction.

Why We Do This

There are lots of online career guides, skill quizzes, and heavily-marketed job sites out there.  We love many of them.

This Guide is the joyful exploration of what you might want to do to broaden your ideas and bring in new possibilities.  We aim to help you

  • rethink your own storyline and frameworks on jobs,
  • find the right tools and networks for you, and
  • set up personalized and supported follow-up systems to keep the journey and explorations going.

The Time is Now

We all change jobs.  In fact, the average person under 30 changes them more than once every 3 years.  How can you find the right support under these transitions? How do you get started with a solid framework and untangled from the heavy resume-system, un-personalized networks? How can you really learn where the gaps are that might be unique to your own skills or your own areas of passion/exploration/change?
For users who are in their teens through 60’s, there are career pivots and re-launchings that happen at all stages.  NextCareer.me is launching programs for different stages of life, to build the structures and awareness to help you break out of your own boxes, build skills and relationships, and build systems to provide the social, knowledge, and emotional support you need to develop and expand (and pivot) in changing work and tech worlds. 

Past Tidbits and Explorations

Reflecting on My SXSW 2016 Journeys

I spoke at SXSW Music again this year on my current favorite topic: Music 20/20 and how we can proactively affect the future. SXSW, however, is not just about speaking. It is about diving deeply into diverse ideas with diverse people. It is one of my annual...

Listening Harder to Me from 2009 and 2011

Happy New Year! I am filtering and sorting the past 3 years of my life in big piles this am. My family is putting up with piles of folders and papers, along with a big cup of coffee, on a portable desk and around my sofa while I watch the 2nd playing of the Rose...

Visually Mapping Your Social Self

In older days, I would Google myself to see how I surfaced.  That's not just an ego thing -- I found many strange things attributed to me.  I research myself, or at least my professional reach. In current days, there are tools that help me "research myself" using...

Pixelating Reality from SXSW Interactive 2014

We enjoyed sharing insights at SXSW Interactive 2014 on this question -- How is smartphone use pixelating reality, blowing it up and turning it into shiftable bits of data so we are making different decisions with its Time and Place? We are in a massive change in...