How to Make Friends with Career Columnists and Influence Mainstream News Organizations

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!For readers in the States, the 4th of July is [...]

Considering an Alternate Viewpoint: “The Curse of Exceptionality”

Lea Woodward shared an interesting viewpoint yesterday on FreelanceSwitch. Lea proposes that being ‘average’ may just be enough, and discusses how in a culture saturated with self-improvement and business success literature, a strong focus on exceptionality can actually lead to burnout:
In a society where everyone is trying to be exceptional or remarkable, the outcome is [...]

Perform a 2007 Year-End Personal Development Review

The advent of a new year is a great time to reflect on all that you’ve done over the past 12 months and take what you’ve learned, and build a roadmap for the coming year and beyond. Lea Woodward at Freelance Switch wrote a fantastic article to help freelancers apply what you learned in 2007 [...]

It’s Time for Some Thrilling Heroics: Commit to Pursuing Your Wildest Dreams with Me in 2008!

Over at CodyMcKibben.com in November, I wrote about my experiments with freelancing, and about my desire to shift my career so that my work is not just means to pay the bills, but more of a way to express my passions and continue to increase my personal growth. See the post here. In response [...]

Experimenting with Career Options

It’s been a while since I really wrote regularly on either of my blogs. Somewhat unfortunately, I’ve been tied up with work. In the last several weeks, I’ve experimented with a few different things.
I left my full-time employment at Sacramento State University almost two months ago, after which I took a short break while my [...]

Everything’s on Delay…I Broke My Hand

For those of you who haven’t heard yet, I broke a metacarpal on my right hand over the Labor Day Weekend, so I’ve been having a tough time keeping up with the blogs, with my freelance coding, and my job search. Since the doc put me in a half cast, I only have about one [...]