I worked at an agency where it was common to practice CV-driven-development. You'd decide what bullet points you wanted on your CV at the end of a project - be they new languages, frameworks, responsibilities etc - and manipulated the project (often disastrously) to make them true.
My Resume Is Total Fiction
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#33IMO, life is not about having a rigid "plan" and executing towards it, it's about having a general direction, being flexible and making the most of the opportunities that come your way. Not only is the latter easier to navigate, you'll be happier because your expectations are more likely to be met.
I think you're agreeing with the OP. He changes his plan once a year - hardly rigid. Sounds a lot like a general, flexible direction to me.
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#34This has inspired me to do something similar. I don't think I'll do it as a resume, but I'll probably do it as a list somewhere. I know this isn't a novel idea or anything, but I never seriously thought about setting serious goals for myself like this. I mean, in the past I have just set vague goals like "Become more skilled in x or y" rather than a defined list of reachable goals.
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#35Perhaps you could try the same with your obituary. Less work bound but perhaps a touch morbid.
With the major caveat, of course, that you can't read your obituary when it's 'realised'.
Wouldn't you basically be realizing it every year, hopefully getting closer and closer to your goals. In fact, on any particular day you would know "if I die today, i know what my obituary would be".
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#36This has inspired me to do something similar. I don't think I'll do it as a resume, but I'll probably do it as a list somewhere. I know this isn't a novel idea or anything, but I never seriously thought about setting serious goals for myself like this. I mean, in the past I have just set vague goals like "Become more skilled in x or y" rather than a defined list of reachable goals.
Author here. Do it, you won't regret it. Honestly, the resume is just the medium I chose. It's not about the medium, it's about having a direction in mind.
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#37So I disagree with this advice, because I think there is an effect that talking about something feels as good as if you've done it. I prefer to keep an accomplishment totally stealth - not write it down or mention it to anyone - until it's more than done. And then understate it, casually let it out of the bag. This is how Apple did products in their heydey. Did Steve Jobs list all the things the nonexistent iPhone di…
Well, I'm sure he gave that list to the people designing the hardware, software, OS, marketing materials, etc...
Actually, he didn't:
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/10/05/apple-skankphone-buil...
"Apple had two teams working on the iPhone in complete isolation from one another. One on the real iOS platform with fake hardware and the other on the real hardware with fake software; AKA the ‘skankphone’."
That is the closest you can get to having no such list.
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#38Perhaps you could try the same with your obituary. Less work bound but perhaps a touch morbid.
It works! (n=1)
"I used to go to the gym and pretend in my head I had already died, and it was 100 years into the future, and I was dreaming of some guy who wrote a database. I didn't know how the story ended yet, I hadn't gotten that far."
-- Damien Katz, http://damienkatz.net/2014/10/tank_man.html
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#39IMO, life is not about having a rigid "plan" and executing towards it, it's about having a general direction, being flexible and making the most of the opportunities that come your way. Not only is the latter easier to navigate, you'll be happier because your expectations are more likely to be met.
The other reason the latter is a better plan is because when executing to a rigid plan, people tend to miss or ignore the opportunities that present themselves. This is like people who go to parties with the overarching goal of meeting their future spouse. Concentrating too hard on that goal, rather than just enjoying themselves, can make them miss great opportunities to meet new friends who could be useful later in…
If I could find a party full of female scientists - then perhaps I could enjoy it.
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#40"And in its perfect state"