Productivity For Skill Building: Build Multiple Career Paths Efficiently

1. Welcome!: Hi, Welcome to 100 in ten. This is your course to build 100 years of experience and only ten years. Welcome to my course. I am here to teach you a productivity method. Just to give you a little about myself. I'm 36 right now and I've had a number of different careers. Why? Because well, around 2009 when I was graduated from undergraduate school, the recession hit, if you remember, the 2008 recession, and everyone had to scramble for a plan B. Because at that time I had an internship and I was getting ready to graduate and they wouldn't hire me full-time internship. But everything changed. Once that recession hits. The folks who said they would hurt me got fire themselves. A lot of people lost their jobs around that time and companies were not hiring. So I learned my early twenties that not only did I need a plan B, but I needed a plan for every letter of the alphabet. So I created a system where I could gain the skills that I needed in several different career paths simultaneously within one year. And I just repeated that cycle over a number of years. So that by ten years into it, I had ten years of experience and about 11 career paths. And this has proved to be so helpful. Example with COVID. It helped me out because I had been working in live entertainment and events prior to COVID hitting and since I was simultaneously building my skills in other career paths with my method, once theaters, venues shut down, I was able to find a remote job in tech. So I am here to teach you my method. Help you develop a plan for yourself. So that an uncertain times you have other career paths to fall back on. 2. Exercise 1, Step 1: Brainstorm: Welcome to the course. I'm calling this course 110. That is 110, which means I am going to help you develop skills so that you can build 100 years of experience and only ten years. How do you do that? Well, it takes about ten years to master a subject, right? What if you only devoted about a month to each one of those subjects that you wanted to master any year. In the session, you will identify ten areas that calcium. This session addresses the question regarding what you should do for a career. Learn how to use your heart and your head when plotting your path in ways that are measurable results. For this first step, I would like you to take out a piece of paper. So what we're going to do is brainstorm, going to ideate on any kind of career that you've ever thought you want to have, what kind of things call to you and believe it or not, you already have an idea of this. This is why you joined Skillshare. You wanted to build your skills in certain areas so you can eat. If you don't have any ideas right now, you could search Skillshare right now. And what sticks out to you? What kind of videos stick out to you? What, what are you doing in your well as streams in ten years? Go ahead and write that down on a sheet of paper. Write everything that you think of Tao. Blue Sky. Meaning it could be the craziest out, way out there idea that irrational mind tells you what never happened. Go ahead and write back down, we're brainstorming right now. Do not cross any ideas off of your list yet. 3. Exercise 1, Step 2: Select 10: After you've brainstormed and you're ready to stop. Here's where we start to narrow down callings to 1010 areas. So go ahead and circle ten. You might find that some things that you've written down actually fit into one category. So you can combine those things into one category and go ahead and circle both of those as one. When you're done identifying your ten callings and you have those other remaining things that you're interested in. Don't cross them off. You might want to revisit this list later and pull in some of those other things, maybe in place of one of your colleagues, or you could add it in to another one and make it one big polling. Now that you've identified your ten colleagues, what we're going to do is revise those ten, going to honor the time that you have, the time that you're currently spending at your job or other time commitments that you have right now. And you are going to write in your current job, e.g. as one of your colleagues and you might think, but can stay in my job. I'm trying to start something new. Why do I have to add this into what I want to be doing in ten years. Well, it's a part of honoring the time that you're spending in your day. Because every thing that you're doing in your day can transfer into other avenues. So those are transferable skills that you're building. So you want to start thinking of everything that you're putting your energy into. Building your skills and building your transferable skills into what you wanna do in the future. So make sure you're honoring your time by adding in your day job now. 4. Exercise 1, Step 3: Evaluate Your 10 Picks: Welcome back. Congratulations on completing steps 1.2. Now for step three, you have your, your tin callings and you've identified one of those ten callings as your current job to honor your current skills and your time spent right now. What we're going to do in step three is a little, little more of that. Along the same lines, we're going to evaluate how practical each one of your colleagues are. So next to each one of your callings, notes, if this is a dream job, a hobby, or a practical job that pays the bills. So go ahead and do that on your list. About five of your callings should be potential money IRS. Okay. So five of those callings should be able to pay some bills. You should be able to search for jobs and find listings in these five categories. About four of your colleagues should be hobbies, and that would include interests, passions, or dream jobs that you want. Maybe right now, you can't land a position, a job that pays money in any of these things. But maybe in 510 years you won't be able to as you, as you build your skills so you can name those past hobbies for right now. And again to repeat, you need to honor the time and energy that you're putting out into the world right now. So one of those callings, one of those practical followings, needs to be your current way of making money. Even if it's not a passion, even if that's not something you want to continue doing. Within the next month, whatever you're currently doing. Add a calling for that atom block for that, because that's going to be flexible moneymaker, where again, you're honoring your time and skills that you are putting into that job. No matter how much you despise it. 5. Exercise 2, Step 1: Planning 1 Year: Great job on completing steps 12.3 and less than one, exercise one, we're going to move on to exercise tune out. And I call this the wheel of fortune. Now that you have your ten callings from exercise, one is time to plan a way to build your skills and connections. And these ten categories and an efficient amount of time. One year, you will have started a resume for each of these ten callings. How is it possible to work ten plus jobs in a year? This exercise or breakdown steps designed for avoiding burnout, guilt from failure or overwhelming yourself. Or this strategy is then and full of self-care. We're going to plan out how you're going to achieve building skills and your ten callings over a year. Printing out a calendar template can be helpful with this step. You're going to allow for consecutive weeks of focusing on one of your callings at a time. You can make this a, a month by month bang. For me, I use four consecutive weeks, meaning that they're those weeks are not always going to be in one month. I found it kind of like creating my own space in my own calendar, aside from the calendar that the mass population is on, is running on. So when one month turns into the next, you'll notice that the entire world follows that same calendar and structure and setting your personal calendar a little off from that. For me, that kind of made it even more so my own made it feel more so like my own past. In a way it's a pressure off. You know, I was able to celebrate my own milestones and accomplishments without the noise of the world where anything in any other monthly celebration beginning of the month and the Vermont or a monthly duties like Rents due at the beginning of the modern, stuff like that. As you will notice, the world runs on a calendar set monthly. And I just wanted my goals to slightly not align with that so that I could follow my own path. That it felt like I was following my own thing. Yeah, so I call this a wheel of fortune because we are building your fortune, rebuilding your future. So go ahead and set your own calendar. You can follow the zodiac. You could start on your birthday day or something. Make it your own. As you're organizing where you're going to place your focus throughout the year. Followings. I find it helpful to kind of organize them according to times of the year that are relevant. E.g. if you if one of them is surfing, maybe it's better to focus on that one. During summer months. If one requires you to spend time indoors, maybe if it has to do with editing or anything that's equipment, maybe focused on that during winter months when you don't really want to go outside. You're spending a lot of time indoors anyway. Stuff like that. To recap on step one and exercise too. We took your ten colleagues and started to organize for the year. You're going to focus on one of your callings per month. So I went ahead and numbered one through 12 representing months. I also left two spots open for free space so I can take a break. I encourage you to do the same. We are organizing within four consecutive weeks, not necessarily months, because we're making this wheel of fortune your own. In the next video, we're going to personalize this calendar even more by characterizing each month. 6. Exercise 2, Step 1.5: Characterizing Your Months (Optional): Welcome back. Thank you for joining me for exercise one. And exercise too. Congratulations on completing Exercise one. Now, moving on into exercise to you just watched the previous video, which was step one all about planning your year. I'm looking at my notes. So congratulations on planning out your year. But there's one other step that I want to go through with you and that's characterization. And I'm a writer. So that's why I integrated this into my, my technique and it'll work really well for me. So I encourage you to follow along and do the same. Take out your list of 12 months. But you wanna do is kinda characterize them. So for me, I'm a writer. I write fiction for future science fiction, that kinda stuff will fantasy, mostly science fiction. But it was helpful for me to think of each one of my colleagues as a character. So I characterized each one. And as those four consecutive weeks of focus came about, it was easier for me to think. Okay, this is when does month and Linda, my character, Linda, she lion tamer at a circus who is very disciplined in her art. The focused work. I am doing that during this time. I actually dedicated that to the practical application. Whatever day job I was doing at that time. Anyway. So anything that I was doing for her, just like money, just to pay the bills. I gave that a character and focused my time for consecutive weeks around that. Another, to give you another example, that is not one of my practical ones. One of my dream jobs was to write for video games. So I had a character, Justin, who was big into AI and interactive video game, that kind of stuff. And during those four consecutive months, developing my knowledge around video games, video games, ai, interactive video of him writing narrative design. I had that Justin, director and Mike started off as a dream job. And ten years after doing this and coming back to Justin every once once a month, every year for ten years. Ten years later, I worked full-time as narrative design. So it works, it turned into a dream job thing that was not practical because I couldn't make money off of it at first, didn't know what to what I was doing and turned into something I do full time. Okay. So I hope that you have printed out a calendar or done so digitally. I I prefer physical handwritten stuff, so I will write it out. And I will physically write my goals down. So I I encourage you to do the same. But whatever works for you. Okay. After you have characterize your callings, it's time to move on to step number two and extra texture. 7. Exercise 2, Step 2: Planning 1 Month: It's time to move on to step number two and extra steps. Step number two, you can start immediately, no ahead and spin that wheel for Michigan wheel of fortune into motion. So we can start immediately by researching whatever topic you're beginning with. Research can include job searching to get an idea of what roles are out there. You can journal or bowls as you've researched. And you can add bowls onto your calendar. And when you add goals to your calendar, you're doing this for the full year. So sure you've got your short-term goals that you're going to accomplish within the cure for consecutive weeks. But sure. You also remember that you've got the full year. So after your short-term goals are completed for that month, what do you want to have accomplished for this hallway? By the next year? By the next time you clicked this time period. What I have accomplished. So set your short-term goals and your long-term goals. 8. Exercise 2, Step 3: Prevent Burnout (Move On): Okay, Now that you have completed your wheel of fortune, I want to move on to step three, which is a tip. But also a important reminder that you're only focusing on one of your colleagues per month, per four weeks, consecutive time periods. So once that time is up, move on. If you don't move on, then you're going to burn yourself. Remember that you're going to revisit those calling the next year. Remember that you've set your long-term goals so you don't have to worry about failure or not accomplishing what you set out to accomplish. During that during that time, if if you're calling turned out to be a little more difficult than you thought, then adjust your goals. What's important for you to do with this technique is move on. Move on to your next goal. Once that has been done. Move on from that goal. Once that month has ended. Congratulations, you've reached the end of course number one. This course is the first in a series of courses that will help you develop skills to navigate uncertain times so that you always have another career in the back, in your back pocket when unpredictable things happen. During it. This course, you brainstormed. You really looked with n and figured out what you wanna do, what skills you want to hear eight. And you did that with a blue sky attitude. Meaning, even if you think in your wildest dreams, you couldn't accomplish that. What you did is you went ahead and wrote that down on your list. Then you circle ten goals and apply them to your personal calendar, focusing on one and gold per month. And now you have your Wheel of Fortune. Good luck. Share your calendar with a class if you'd like, and watch this closing video to see what I accomplished with my technique. 9. Closing Video: In this course, you are going to identify your portfolio of callings. You will plan your first year of skill-building and you will begin to organize your journey into 100 years of mastery. In only a decade. I just wanted to go over my own experience with y'all. You'll see a few of my resumes posted in this sex section before we begin the course. And I've created this video to give you a little website tour of my old website, which I'm going to be doing redesigning soon. But I decided to use this old website. Just to show you all what I have accomplished in the past ten years before I tear it apart. On the slide you can see just a few of the job titles that I've held. And I want you guys to see the variety of industries that I've been in. Again, this is only the tiny smidgen of them. I have had the opportunity to hold a handful of dream job throughout my last decades. So this is what this course is all about. I am going to teach you how to increase your opportunities by building skill sets in a variety of industries in a efficient way, organized way, and a way that is not going to, um, burn you out. My website needs updating, but I just wanted to use my old website to take you through what I've done in the past decade. So I used this technique that I'm teaching you 2009-2019. And at the end of 2019, I could say started to take a break because I had accomplished pretty much everything I had set out to accomplish in that ten years. So this is my website that catches everything that I wanted to do. I wanted to create a comic book, video game, audio drama, film, and a stage play. The stage play, we got up and running. And 2018. It had an augmented reality elements to it. You can check out my YouTube channel to actually watch the play and see my website's loading a little slow right now. And you can definitely tell, I need to update it, not organized the UIs little off. And that is one of my projects that I will work on probably in the next year. I also completed a short film. The short film is available after you complete my video game that I designed. Right now you can still go to my old website, kindred opsin.com and click the video game tab. It'll take you to this page. It'll show you the privacy policy and you can download my video game for Android and Apple. After you beat the boss, complete the video game, you'll be able to watch my short film. A short film was available for a limited amount of time in augmented reality. Good morning. I'm here outside Scottish rate theater this February board, where you can catch real puzzle written by Jeremy Rashad brown and dropped by the lawn, take keys and Meghan M or tease. So come over here. It's every weekend in February. So I can catch it. Scottish right theater. While you're here in February checking out your pencil, you can still access the OG SU app, which features my events from trust me love. Trust me love, premiered at Scottish right theater last year. And with it, you're able to access this augmented reality events where he couldn't read my comic book, watch a short film that I wrote and directed. And also check out the audio drama. Hi, I'm here at Central Library in Austin, Texas. This is another location where you can download the app. My events. I myself, stress below the snare kindred opsin. Also my book. So my book is scripted play scripts and comic books. Illustrated by lucky Wilson, written by block can opposite sexually in the young adult section. And remember I'm posting a video game workshop. James short is your instructor. And I'm hosting that event over at Harbor Branch Library. I'm in front of the carbon branch library here where 30 to 40 video game coding workshop is taking place. Everyone stay here in February and it goes until March 6. You could also rinse my play here at Harbor Branch Library. And during Black History Month. This February 2019, you can download the Ogbu app from player wherever you get your apps. And you can read my comic books, watch my short films, listened to an episode of my audio drama, all on the augmented reality app through zoo. And you have to be at a location where my app is available and the Harbor Branch Library is a location for that. Okay. So stop by the library. Check-out may come to you, my video game coding workshop and written my book. Saying, hello, I'm out here in Austin. We are in front of the Capitol building right now. And the African American African American history right there. And I just wanted to show you my authentic reality piece. You might be familiar with augmented reality from Pokemon Go. Augmented reality is a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real-world. Thus providing a composite view. While visiting the African-American history and memorial in Austin, Texas at the Capitol building. You can also access my augmented reality piece, which consists of a comic book in audio drama and a short film. Here's how it works. Download the app from Google Play. And once you download that app, go ahead and open the app and follow the instructions. Step one. So you hold the device flat with the screen facing upwards towards the sky. Then hit the start button. Now, it's going to ask you to keep the phone flat and turn to the left until the arrow is pointing at the dot. After you follow the instructions, you'll see a list of events. Click on Columbus met by Kendra Dobson. Once you do that, you'll see my piece. Enjoy. This sculpture depicts Juneteenth, which is June 19th, 18, 65 when the hundreds of Union troops arrived in Texas to announce the freedom of slaves in the US. I've put my Afro futures project here at this memorial because this is a science fiction piece that allows us to project forward into the future. And I think it's fitting that we can place a vision of the future in the same place where we memorialize our past. Because we need to understand our past and know our history in order for us to have a clear vision of where we're going. My Afro futurist piece is called trust me, love. And it's a story of division. Two. Districts are divided by performers and the audience. And the performance district are made up of cyborgs. Audience is human. Image has been banned for hundreds of years and the society. But something happens in my story to bring image back, you can follow my characters by reading the comic book. Our protagonist, Dido, is our main character there, the comic book. But then the film is a subplot, you could say, of the comics. It is a standalone piece that follows casters story. But if you watch both, read both, you can follow one story told by two different perspectives. My piece comments on how image and entertainment and marketing has become somewhat of a slavery or a way to control consciousness and desires of the society. And it's a way to control the identity of a society. When image is brought back in my story, we're able to see that meticulous master and that the ring master has in controlling his people by the use of image checkout the story. This Augmented Reality piece is going to be up at the African-American history memorial on Austin, Texas until February 29th. This piece is also available epic Harvard Museum in Austin Public Library. Great. So as I was saying, once you complete the video game, you'll be able to watch that film. Film was also connected to and augmented reality piece for a limited amount of time. The Augmented Reality piece was also available at my play, trust me, love. So yeah, I had a goal of writing and producing a play and I'm able to do that. So all in all, my play, comic book, audio drama, video game, and film, we're all a part of this big transmedia project that all work together, right? So I had to produce finance, right? Direct, did not direct the play, but I mean, like I directed the audio drama and film. My strategy is going to show you how you can balance your projects so that you can accomplish those dreams that you have. The back of your head. This is the Augmented Reality piece that went hand in hand with my comic book. Now, so I have flyers out on this table here. Advertiser advertising the video game workshop that my company, 30 to 40 entertainment, was producing for children at the local library. Augmented Reality piece again, so you can access my comic book outside of the carver branch museum and library here. So this is a real life browned, real, real-world out here. All of these are composited AI items. I've got my audio drama that you can listen to if you follow my YouTube channel. Let's connect it to my YouTube channel. Comic books. Can either purchase my comic book or rent it at libraries that have it in their collection. Now, this course is going to guide you on how you can achieve your goals. Achieve your dream job. Any callings that you have in an efficient amount of time. Now, my website showed you my passion projects, comic book, audio drama, film, augmented reality, play, video game. But it has to make money while I support myself, while I was pursuing my passion projects, right? So my resumes will give you a sense of what I was doing, background while I was writing and producing this material. I'm showing you all this because I want you to see that my strategy works. It worked for me for ten years. I accomplished an unbelievable amount of my dreams. Still have more to accomplish, but I can't believe how much it it definitely would like to share it with you-all. So this is where looking through my IMDB page right now. And I will go through in my course material, how can you, how you can divide up your goals so that you're accomplishing everything that you want to accomplish without losing your mind and without burnout. So that was my IMDB. I have a variety of experiences. I'll tell you now that when the pandemic hit, I was easily able to transition out of my dream career in entertainment and live entertainment into a remote tech job. And I was able to do that because I followed the strategy that I'm I'm about to share with you of gradually month by month, year-by-year checking off goals that I've set for myself, ten goals that I've set for myself and I'll share this with you in detail in the course. But it's all about checking in with yourself every year to see where you are in your in your progress. So 45 more experiences. So my strategy is great for people who are worried that in uncertain times they're gonna lose their job and not have anything to fall back on. Like I said, I started my strategy in 2009 during the recession, it was my senior year of undergrad. And coming out of my senior year, I thought that I was going to just get a job with folks that I had interned with. But in the recession, everyone's getting fired. So you had to have not only a plan B, a plan for every letter of the alphabet. And I came up with a strategy. And ten years later, I can't believe how wonderful, how wonderfully It worked for me.