Simone's Day Off: Next steps

Big Steps

Get Kim to help me decide where I want to live
Use informational interviewing to identify the job I want. During the interviews, answer the following questions:
1. What are the names of the jobs that would use my strongest and most enjoyable skills and fields of knowledge?
2. What kinds of organizations have such jobs?
3. What are the names of the organizations that I particularly like, among those uncovered in Question 2?
4. What needs do they have, or what outcomes are they trying to produce, that my skills could help with?
Use my network to identify and seek out the person who actually has the power to hire me for the job I want at the organizations I identify.
Use my contacts to get in to see him or her. Show the person with the power to hire me how I can help them with their problem. Show them how I would stand out as “one employee in a hundred.”
Cut no corners, take no shortcuts

Design and print business cards, thank-you cards, and a letterhead
Make a list of “people who could help me name my ideal job.” Call them and set up ten-minute interviews.
Interview a dozen people
Send each one a thank-you card
From my interviews, make a list of ideal jobs and prioritize it.
Do more research (and more interviewing, if necessary) to identify the organizations in my preferred geographic area that have the kind of job I want. Find out what each organization does and what kind of problems they or their industry are wrestling with.
Send a thank you card to everyone who helps me with this research.
Use my network to identify and seek out the person who has the power to hire me for each of the jobs that I want
Use my contacts to get in to see him or her.
Prepare a killer presentation, showing them how I can help them with their problems. (Use every ounce of graphic design/showmanship/excellence-obsession I possess to convince them.)
Send them a thank you card
Repeat steps 8-13 until I have a job that I love
Go to work