Friday, August 06, 2010

What career is this?

I've been having an enormous amount of fun doing the work I've been doing this past month or so. (I'll show you the end product Monday. It's exciting!)

And since I've been having so much fun, I'm thinking I should try to make a career of this work. But I need help figuring out what career this is. Can you help?

The work: redeveloping our organization's website. I've been working with our vendor (Clockwork) and staff to transition enormous amounts of content into our brand-spankin'-new CMS (w00t).

Things I've been doing and loving:
  • Working with a lot of different people
  • Connecting moving pieces
  • Figuring out solutions to complex content problems: What are we trying to say? Where was it on the old site? Did it make sense there? Where would it make more sense? How can we say it more concisely? Will people be able to find this?
  • Carrying out the solutions I find - there's a huge amount of joy in thinking, "This might work," then doing it, then seeing it in all its new-found glory. LOVE that.
  • Working really, really fast
  • Having meetings (I know overdoing it can cause frustration, but it's a huge improvement from my previous role of sit-at-desk-all-day-every-day)
Maybe I'm missing something, but those are the basics. The third and fourth bullets are particularly important.

I appreciate any help and guidance anyone is willing to provide. Thanks friends!

5 comments:

Mykl Roventine said...

Waste Management? Seriously though, it sounds like project management to some degree with a healthy dose of web content strategy. How exciting to discover the things you love to do! It's a huge step toward making it happen.

jlbraaten said...

Possible job titles involving things you're doing:
- UX Strategist
- Content Strategist
- Web Producer
- Project Manager
- SEO
- Online Marketing Manager
- Web Analyst
- Ninja


If you love it, do it all. Then, you'll either be given the role to match your responsibilities or be a shoe-in for another position that tickles your fancy.

Anonymous said...

Here's a possible job for you at Brain Traffic.

Unknown said...

Thank you all for your helpful comments!

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