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Reflecting on the past 8 yrs working in #HESM. Especially with 2020 coming to a close, I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to survive the uncertain and successfully ride the roller coaster of a career path we've all set out on.
Here are some of my strategies a
Here are some of my strategies a
Believe in yourself and your training. You know what you need to do your job well––fight for that. Invest in YOU (training, mental health, human help, tools, time off, compensation etc.). Be open and honest about these needs and how they help you do your job better.
Be an advocate for your audience. Our job is to build and support our digital communities. It's messy right now, but we have to advocate for what they need and communicate with empathy. Our digital communities should be the focus of our strategy.
Educate yourself AND educate the others around you. We have a highly technical job that requires consistent learning and retooling. W/ our specific set of learned skills we have to do better at educating and sharing what we know and how that influences the successful work we do.
Lean on the community. Your campus community. Your family, friends, mentors and closest allies. The Twitter community. The #HESM community. Ask ?s. Ask for help. Vent. It's a give and take and we're all dealing with our own sense of chaos, but know you never have to do it alone.
Hit the reset button. Not the panic button.
If you're at that breaking point. You know what that is for you. Do what you need to reset. A reset allows you to recalibrate & refocus. Panic doesn't lead to real solutions, it's just a band-aid.
If you're at that breaking point. You know what that is for you. Do what you need to reset. A reset allows you to recalibrate & refocus. Panic doesn't lead to real solutions, it's just a band-aid.
Give yourself grace. You're doing a lot in an industry that is barely a teenager likely with limited resources, no safety net and a training manual that had to kind of get thrown out the window. But you're doing it. That in itself is success.
Keep going. Like a roller coaster, there will be ups, downs, twists and turns. There will be a sense of thrill paired with that feeling that you might puke. But know that roller coasters are designed for this kind of excitement and so are you. You got this!
