The Job In Detail

Episode 9 - Try Stuff

Try stuff. Fail early. Fail often. Some times quit. All the things you're told are bad, can be, but they can also be the most valuable learning tools in your arsenal.

Episode 8 - Don't Despair. Find Your calling.

For this episode, I have talked to an administrative assistant for a Christian organization. Hearing her roots, her early jobs, and how she ended up in her current position resonated with me because I felt the same sense of being in over my head when I started my first career-based position. I still wrestle with imposter syndrome today. Sabrina felt stuck in her fast food position and didn’t know where she could go. As it turns out, all the skills she learned in fast food translate to the administrative assistant role: she can think quick, has customer service experience, can schedule, work with vendors, and more. I believe a lot of people could relate to Sabrina’s experience and benefit from her advice: make friends with your coworkers. They will understand what you’re going through when times are tough. They also may help connect you with the person that will lead to your next job. Thank you so much for listening, I hope you enjoyed the episode. If you’d like to support the show, you can do so through thejobindetail.com or anchor.fm/thejobindetail. You can also tell someone about the show and leave a review on Apple, Google, Spotify or wherever else you may get your podcasts. If you are someone you know would like to tell me about your job, reach out to me through the website form or send an email to Nick@thejobindetail.com [Nick@thejobindetail.com] Thank you again for listening and I’ll see you on the next episode. Stay safe everyone.

Episode 7 - Live. Be Kind. Words Will Follow.

This episode is all about writing – essays, novels, poems, and commercial copywrite. My guest is Robert Dean. He is now based out of Austin, Texas. Originally from Chicago, he departed for New Orleans to kick off his writing career. There, he started to really learn his craft, getting to experience failure that prepared him for when he would later get his “day job”. Since then, his work has appeared in Mic, Fatherly, Forbes, Consequence of Sound, the Austin American-Statesman, and more. During our chat we discuss his influences, past projects, upcoming projects, getting published, and advice for anyone that may want to be a writer. We also discuss the importance of living and the importance of failure. A writer that’s never been out in the world tends to have hollow words, if they can ever find them at all. I can attest to that, as I am more likely to read about an experience than live it. This frequently results in me staring at a blank page trying to figure out how to fill it. The best cure for writer’s block is having experiences to share or observations of others that can be slipped into your writing. Even if it has to be creatively tailored to your story, at least the experience is real, including the human motivation behind the actions. Neil Gaiman refers to this as the ‘compost heap’: your life experiences and interactions you’ve observed go here to coalesce until you need them. Another take-away echoes the sentiments of Steven Pressfield. Do the work. Write every day. No one else will do it for you. Not all of it will be good. But the more you write, the more you will become acquainted with your voice. See more of Robert's work below: https://www.facebook.com/robertdeansworld/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ63waAx39w&authuser=0 https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Dean/e/B007VDV7UG%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

No Call, No Show

This week's show is a quick thought due to a No Call, No Show. We will be back next week with more episodes! Thank you for tuning in.

Episode 6 - Be Curious. Keep Learning.

We were off for a few weeks for the holiday and then had some scheduling issues. But now we are back with another engineer. This week’s guest is my friend Kevin Froehlich. He is a licensed civil engineer in the state of California and works for the County of Orange. In his current role, he works at a landfill overseeing the intake of waste, projects regarding site maintenance, and environmental compliance. If you’re in school or thinking about going to school for engineering, this episode has some useful information about what to expect and challenges that may arise. There is also great information about finding your first job, even if it’s not initially what you thought it might be. As it turns out, while it’s important to be good at math as an engineer, you also need to be able to effectively communicate, both electronically and verbally, to both individuals and teams. Perhaps more importantly, and this goes for all the non-engineers out there too, you need to be a lifelong learner, being curious about solutions to problems not just in theory, but in practice. __________ Thank you so much for listening to the episode. If you like the show and want to support it, please subscribe and rate wherever you get your podcasts, and visit the support section on achor.fm/thejobindetail or thejobindetail.com. Thank you to Kevin for joining me – if you’re interested in seeing the documentary we referenced, I have linked to it below. I am lining up a few more episodes, but if you or someone you know would like to be interviewed, send an email to Nick@thejobindetail.com [Nick@thejobindetail.com]. Thank you again for listening. Stay safe everyone and see you on the next show. https://www.my5.tv/secrets-of-the-mega-landfill [https://www.my5.tv/secrets-of-the-mega-landfill] https://iconfilms.co.uk/productions/secrets-of-the-mega-landfill/ [https://iconfilms.co.uk/productions/secrets-of-the-mega-landfill/]