Your Career Binder: the ideas and inspiration section

The Ideas and Inspirations section should include some blank paper so that when you have an idea, no matter how silly it may seem, you can jot it down. You will also want to insert articles you print from the web or clip from the newspapers, professional journals and magazines about people and companies doing interesting or innovative things, ideas that you may want to follow up on later.

Sometimes, the most ridiculous idea can turn out to be the perfect career.

I read an article about a service in San Francisco where a young man started a home vegetable gardening business for people who want to have a backyard vegetable garden but don't want to get their hands dirty. He does all of the dirty work, and his customers get all of the fresh produce.

I read an article about a guy who opened a golf driving range. I knew that he would be hiring instructors and groundskeepers.

I read an article about a car dealer that moved its operation to a new site, with twenty more service bays. I knew that they would be hiring more technicians and service mechanics.

I read an article about a marina that is dealing with abandoned boats, an article about a real estate agent who has houses for sale that no one is taking care of, and an article about people who have records needing to be shredded that they just can't get rid of.

Most of the ideas and inspirations that come to you will be of little or no value. But you never know when lightning will strke. Who would have thought that in the early months of 2009, opportunities would exist in the debt collection and debt consolidation industry?

Ideas and inspiration are like fish swimming by.  If you fail to catch them when you see them they just disappear.   Even if it seems like a long shot, write it down!  ... or clip it out of the paper.

As a serious job seeker,  you are going to gather a lot more information about job ideas and possibilities than you can efficiently keep in your ideas and inspirations section.  For some of this information,  you will need to clip or save pages from the web.  Still,  you need this section filled with blank paper so that you can jot things down when the ideas come to you,  without stopping to open a file or bothering with a form or a template or a database.   

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