PLACEMENT AND NETWORKING FOR DESIGN | JOURNEY IN BEING
ANIL MITRA PHD, November 10, 2004
Journey in Being phases: 1. Experiments, nature living; 2. Study, research –general, phases– and NARRATIVE; 3. Variety / machine being || Action / HRI; 4. after
MY VALUES and using my abilities
Money and other support: see OPTIONS || retire / health insurance – COBRA, Medicare || inspiration: retreat, years off, not a slave to time or person || local resources: Quicken, MS Business planner, FOUNDATIONS ETC, USEFUL LINKS || Internet: THE FOUNDATION CENTER… keywords = funding / headhunter / OPTIONS
Study field and position / RESUME / RESUMES FOLDER / presence and charisma / letter “excellence and excitement” / budget, proposal and presentation
Sources
of funds
POSITION / contract / freelance – including programming / loan / venture capital – entrepreneur / family / friends / partner / retirement account / savings / fellowship / grant / NSF / gift / foundation / internet advertisement
Type
of position
Employment / independent – create / leave of absence / six months to a year on savings… / freelance – including programming || teach / tutor / research || student / MPH / MBA
Academic - university / laboratory / industry / consulting / policy analysis – think tanks / planning / banking / industries / government – federal to local / hospital
Engineering / aerospace / computer / energy, oil / manufacturing / science / physics / philosophy / mathematics / investment / medicine / health / administration
Sources
of information and contacts
Internet / network / headhunters / newspapers / journals, magazines / how to books / meetings… / employment offices / travel, tour, meet
Write to departments-universities e.g. philosophy, labs, firms as in OPTIONS… for JIB position; engineering: teach, research; to save money
Distribution list –before printing– for resume, publications, cover letter, and references – JIB: university – secular and denominational… be selective e.g. TRINITY COLLEGE, Dublin / independent person or organization / sponsors and foundations / church, denomination including unitarian and other || younger / senior or well known || physics and science / philosophy – analytic / continental / other || US / International || SPECIFIC: Friends – Suri, Gautam, Mahajan, Ahrens, Greenberg / local – unitarian, HSU – Stauffer, Chaney, Anderson, philosophy – Goodman
Place / alternative solutions: camping, van
Sources of information: newspaper, bulletin boards, real estate, other agencies, individuals, friends
Move: take