as requested — a future post filled with blindingly insightful revelations and guarantees of fortune! or, failing that, bullet points!
- preparation is key — all those years people thought i was wasting time mucking around with PCs & the interweb instead of writing the doctoral thesis i was supposed to be working on? in hindsight, it turns out that was all preparation, baby!
- friends & colleagues lift you up — two of what someone looking from afar might consider my Strategic Career Moves have been the direct result of people sending me details about openings that i never would have found on my own…
- never underestimate the power of chance — see above.
- work your arse off — obviously a more than generous portion remains in situ to this very day, but as a general principle…
- things could be worse — no matter how shitty the situation i found myself in, or how hounded by workmonkeys i was, or how generally pissed i might have been about life, the universe & everything, i’ve tried to hold that thought…
so you see, el davebot — it’s all pretty much a combination of whim & pot luck… hana sends hugs, haruki says bwwwgglllbwah…
