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Originally Posted by Hitch
I don't get it. I really don't. If you're going to spend that much money...what the HELL?
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You spend that much money so you don't have to actually know stuff. You can pay someone to deal with that for you. Except when it's not that simple, and you do need to know stuff.
An old friend wrote a series of posts elsewhere on job hunting. She's an older woman who has been in finance for many years, and writing about financial topics. After a dozen years at her last employer, she ran afoul of a new HR Director who didn't like her and pushed her out. (I believe the HR Director is no longer there because she rubbed too many folks the wrong way, but that doesn't help my friend.)
She's been on the job market for a while, but didn't expect the process to take as long as it has, and was blogging about her job hunting experiences and dealing with recruiters. She decided the blog posts would be a decent eBook for others in the market (and raise her profile in the market and make potential employers more aware of her.)
She knows nothing about eBooks, so a friend who does helped her put the collection into a Kindle volume available through Amazon. That's all well and good, but the whole world doesn't use Kindles or Kindle apps, and doesn't get content from Amazon, so while Amazon is certainly where you
start, it should be the only thing you do.
I tried to explain that there was more than one eBook format, and she needed to cover other bases. My one paragraph explanation was completely non-technical, but the response was that that level of detail would have scared her off from trying in the first place.
Detail? If I wanted to go into detail, she would still be reading next week...
My concern is that I think she's defined herself as someone incapable of grasping tech. The woman has a PhD from Harvard and is comfortable with explaining abstruse financial topics, so it's not a question of intelligence. But I've seen this before. If you define yourself as being incapable of doing something, you won't be able to do it, and closer off a range of opportunities. Somewhere she internalized that someone like her wasn't
supposed to understand tech, so she can't. That sort of thing dismays me.
(She just landed a new position in finance that will be a challenge, because she'll be customer facing and trying to sell services. I think she can, but she's never done that before, so it will be a learning experience. Crossing appendages...)
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Dennis