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ideal job v0.3

2008.October.21

criteria for an ideal job (updated from v0.2):

  • Helping local communities adapt to global issues (i.e. climate change, water management, food security, high-density urban living, equity, biodiversity)
  • Focus on intersection land use, economy and ecology
  • Creative and challenging, experimentation and adventure
  • Researching complex systems, finding simplicity and elegance in solutions
  • Not at the same desk everyday
  • Variety of tasks: design, analysis, graphics, words, communication, introverted focus, research, interpretation, proposing new ideas/vision along with discussion and refinement, experiments
  • Working within an effective organization with inspiring, motivated colleagues.
  • Independence in approach and process, dependence in terms of outcomes
  • Active

ideal job v0.1

2008.February.10
I need to make an impact and an income. I don’t want just another desk job.

As of Saturday Feb 09, 2008 my ideal job would be:

  • outdoors > 50% of the time
  • creating and making things happen
  • physical and active: involve walking, observing, manipulating, tending
  • problem-solving through analysis and synthesis
  • fostering vitality across scales, connect to greater issues like water and energy yet be visceral at the human scale
  • connective: teaching, writing, sharing ideas