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[Lightning Talk] Sustainable Career Development: Advancing While Still Having Free Time

[Lightning Talk] Sustainable Career Development: Advancing While Still Having Free Time

This is a condensed version of a talk by the same name. It addresses the pressure in the tech industry to participate in work-related extracurriculars like side projects and meetups and provides ideas for progressing in our careers without sacrificing all our leisure time.

https://speakerdeck.com/noelledaley/sustainable-career-development-advancing-while-still-having-free-time

Noelle Daley

August 30, 2016
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  1. Sustainable Career Development: Advancing While Still Having Free Time Noelle

    Daley | @elnoelle Donut.JS | August 2016 | http://goo.gl/sOAEXs
  2. What are we going to talk about? 1. Pressure to

    participate in work-related extracurriculars 2. What that pressure is actually getting at 3. How we can advance our careers without giving up our free time
  3. What is “pressure”? Pressure: feeling of obligation to participate in

    work-related activities outside of working hours
  4. “ “the industry’s emphasis on [side projects] inherently disadvantages people

    who cannot regularly work on them.” Terri Burns, “Side Project Culture: Opportunities and Obstacles for Marginalized People in Tech”
  5. What can we do instead? 1. Be targeted 2. Set

    boundaries 3. Experiment 4. Be kind
  6. What can we do instead? 1. Be targeted 2. Set

    boundaries 3. Experiment 4. Be kind
  7. What can we do instead? 1. Be targeted 2. Set

    boundaries 3. Experiment 4. Be kind
  8. What can we do instead? 1. Be targeted 2. Set

    boundaries 3. Experiment 4. Be kind
  9. What can we do instead? 1. Be targeted 2. Set

    boundaries 3. Experiment 4. Be kind
  10. Summary • This industry expects a lot of us •

    There are many different factors for this • You can still advance your career by optimizing the time you have at work and changing the way you think • You are not alone!
  11. Credits & Related Reading • Juliana Arrighi, “Finding Your Own

    Learning Path”, https://goo.gl/rin3Fj • Terri Burns, “Side Project Culture: Opportunities and Obstacles for Marginalized People in Tech”, https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/side-project-culture-opportunities-and-obstacle s-for-marginalized-people-in-tech • Avdi Grimm, “The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer”, devblog.avdi.org/2014/01/31/the-moderately-enthusiastic-programmer/ • Lara Hogan, “The Importance of Donuts”, http://larahogan.me/donuts/ • http://www.babevibes.com/the-pep-talk-generator/ • Shanley Kane, “10x Engineer”, Your Startup is Broken: Inside The Toxic Heart of Tech Culture • Jacob Kaplan-Moss, PyCon 2015 Keynote, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIJdFxYlEKE • Katherine Wu, “Continuing Education at Work”, https://speakerdeck.com/kwugirl/continuing-education-at-work-self-dot-conference