{"id":852,"date":"2014-04-29T10:39:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2014-04-29T10:40:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:40:17","slug":"when-you-know-working-towards-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/when-you-know-working-towards-something\/","title":{"rendered":"When you know that you’re working towards something"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novice<\/p>\n

Someone recently asked me how I choose guests for the NNL podcast<\/a>. It may seem like I’ve hosted quite an eclectic group\u00a0of people, ranging from developers<\/a> to CEOs<\/a> to consultants<\/a>\u00a0to sex-tech innovators<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The question caught me off guard. I realized I was just using my gut\u00a0to decide who to invite\u00a0on the show. But I had never really thought about how my gut was deciding.<\/p>\n

I think I’ve figured it out.<\/p>\n

People I meet generally fall into one of two categories: those who are walking towards<\/em> something, and those who are simply working<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s a subtle distinction, but it makes all the difference.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean that you need to know what you want to do with your life<\/em>.\u00a0It’s possible to be working towards something but\u00a0not sure what<\/em> we’re working towards.<\/p>\n

When I was building my first app<\/a> Reader Tracker, I had no idea that I’d be eventually teaching and podcasting at Novice No Longer. But at every step along the way, I could have told you what I did to get to where I was, and exactly why I made the decisions that I made in order to get there. I was working\u00a0towards<\/em> something.<\/p>\n

But I wasn’t always working towards something. Most of my life, I was just working.<\/p>\n

I’d go to work at my mostly stress-free retail job, either grab drinks with friends or watch movies when I left work, and then repeat all again the next day. It wasn’t a bad life by any means \u2014 in fact, I was very happy. I can understand why most people stay at this stage. It allows time to pursue\u00a0other passions, like movies, video games, or delicious craft beer.<\/p>\n

But something in me changed. I can’t pinpoint the exact moment, whether it was an article I read or an app I downloaded, but I saw a world where I could create new things. I found career paths that didn’t just pay well, but had no ceilings at all.<\/p>\n

Ever since discovering that I was working towards something, I have made it my mission to surround myself with other people who are also working towards something, too. And to share as much of that knowledge as possible with the world.<\/p>\n

That’s why I’m trying to do with my podcast, and how I find guests. Because when you’re working towards something, it helps to surround yourself with like-minded people.<\/p>\n

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Someone recently asked me how I choose guests for the NNL podcast. It may seem like I’ve hosted quite an eclectic group\u00a0of people, ranging from developers to CEOs to consultants\u00a0to sex-tech innovators. The question caught me off guard. I realized I was just using my gut\u00a0to decide who to invite\u00a0on the show. But I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[180],"tags":[181,101,36,107,92,5],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46r0N-dK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}