Down a science rabbit hole of the internet, I got this link on my feed via the sciencemag.org website.
https://www.sciencemag.org/tags/your-unicorn-career
"Your Unicorn Career is an advice column about understanding your value and creating professional bliss by career consultant and professional speaker Alaina G. Levine." The column launched online in February, 2019.
Here are some valuable art-life tips from just two articles that appeared on the column.
1) Landing that dream job...
Many indie artists dream of working for a major studio. This science-life column gives some strategies to get there....
https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/05/fashion-your-unicorn-career-speak-about-your-passions-value-and-objectives
"As you work to develop your unicorn career, whether you are applying for a job right now or strategizing what you will do years in the future, three elements are crucial: your passions, your value, and your objectives. These are three distinct but related concepts that you need to both know for yourself and be able to communicate to others. But what are they exactly?"
"The story of another scientist, who landed his dream job developing sneakers at Nike, highlights the benefits of making your passions, goals, and objectives known. His vision since he was 11 years old was to work in the sneaker industry, and he took every step you could imagine to work toward this finish line. He researched the sector. He networked and reached out to experts for advice. He pursued degrees that would bring him closer to the industry movers and shakers. In addition to this leg work, this guy also did something else that struck me: He told everyone he could about his dream to work for a sneaker company. And the more he learned about Nike, the more he told people his dream was to work at Nike. By the time he defended his dissertation, Nike knew who he was, the value he could provide them, his objective to apply his knowledge to sneaker development, and his passion for the company. A position was open, and he got the job."
2) How to tell your boss/mentor/family you want to leave your "real" job for an art career...
https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/07/how-tell-your-adviser-you-re-pursuing-nonacademic-career
"Some advisers view a desire to experiment with and pursue careers unfamiliar to them as truly “unholy”—something to be looked down upon; a sign of failure, sabotage, or abandonment; sacrilegious; and even blasphemous. Others simply don’t know much about these options—most of them have spent their entire careers in academia, after all—and are not equipped to offer advice."
"...you are expanding your networks greatly and will have entrée to much more information, ideas, and other resources of value that can help your PI advance their goals. For example, you may start going to professional conferences that your adviser didn’t know about or didn’t think would be relevant for their research, and you realize that this is a perfect platform for them to present. You have now opened the door for them to promote their work, find new collaborators, and push their research agenda forward."
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