Nerd Journey: Career Advice for the Technology Professional

Nerd Journey: Career Advice for the Technology Professional


Latest Episodes

All the Networking Things: Project Management, Pre-Sales, and Broadening a Technical Specialty with Amy Arnold (2/2)
July 02, 2024

When should we adjust from focusing in a specialized area to something more broad? Amy Arnold left technical consulting because she missed working on all the networking things. The former network en

Packets Don’t Lie: Quality of Service for Technical Exploration in Network Engineering with Amy Arnold (1/2)
June 25, 2024

When something related to your current job or a job you think you want isnt for you, how do you know? And how quickly can you make that decision? Much like quality of service is applied to enterprise

Life after Layoff: A Leader’s Sense of Duty and A Series of Good Conversations with Marni Coffey (3/3)
June 18, 2024

When a people leader is laid off, they have a choice - stop everything, or continue to lead, even as you exit. Marni Coffey continued to model strong character and supportive leadership for her team u

Change Management: The Hardest Leap and Developing People with Marni Coffey (2/3)
June 11, 2024

Why is moving from individual contributor to technical lead or team lead such a hard leap? For Marni Coffey, it was about learning to develop the people around her. Developing others is something Marn

Uncovering Empathy: The Greatest Skill of an Inclusive Leader with Marni Coffey (1/3)
June 04, 2024

If asked about your greatest skill, how would you answer? Could you even answer the question? Our guest this week was asked to name her greatest skill in a job interview, and the answer is one of the

Uniquely Suited to Deliver with Ethan Banks (2/2)
May 28, 2024

Have you checked out the Packet Pushers Job Board? According to trends Ethan Banks of Packet Pushers is seeing, companies need experienced senior technical people who are comfortable working with a

Book Discussion: Finish, Part 4 – The Day before Done and Perfectionism’s Final Roadblocks
May 14, 2024

What if deep down you are afraid of achieving a goal? Could the fear of success be the very thing that motivates you to abandon your goal? What could you be getting by not finishing? With the finish

Book Discussion: Finish, Part 3 – Get Rid of Your Secret Rules and Use Data to Celebrate Your Imperfect Progress
May 07, 2024

Could you be making false assumptions which only serve to keep you from achieving your goals? Secret rules take self-reflection to discover, destroy, and replace with rules based on the truth. In ad

Book Discussion: Finish, Part 2 – Deliberate Time Investments and Avoiding Distractions
April 30, 2024

In order to finish the goals we begin, author Jon Acuff says we need more time to work toward each goal, the motivation to keep going, and to maintain focus amidst any possible distractions perfection

Book Discussion: Finish, Part 1 – The Day after Perfect and Cut Your Goal in Half
April 23, 2024

What if the reason you arent completing the goals you start working toward is really a symptom of being a perfectionist? Maybe you dont think you have a problem with perfectionism. Think again, fr