Friday y'All: Casual work done becomes a career or brings success in your life--what's yours?

vikram
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September 1, 2022

Hello Everyone, its Firday in India, I wish you all Happy Friday and Happy weekend. 

Let me tell you how an un expected and casual work done become success and brought me fame to my life --

Few years back, I casually helped a person by drafting and preparing few local documents to help and fulfill his requirements.

Now that help of drafting local documents turned me one of the popular (local) document writter in my area.

The person to whom I help, told to some one else and it went like that and know people from different areas call me and give me documents to be prepared.

This drafting work(local documents) is not my goal or my career but it brought me success and fame.

Vikram Kumar P.

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Alex Koxaras _Relational_
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September 2, 2022

Hi @vikram 

Can't really say that I fully relate to your story, as I don't crave in my 40s to have fame.

However, what I can share with you all, is that on my previous job the desire to learn about Jira brought to me to where I'm currently at. And that is to a job position and a company which I love. And all of this because two guys decided to develop Jira :) <3

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Monique vdB
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September 2, 2022

I hear knowing Jira is a pretty marketable skill these days! 😉

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September 2, 2022

Thanks @Alex Koxaras _Relational_ for sharing, your story.

Monique vdB
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September 2, 2022

@vikram happy Friday!

Actually part of my community career was built this way - I was working as an English professor and a proofreader and doing some technical writing on the side. I started researching and writing about gamification programs and theory, and then I ended  launching a career in community, building my expertise, and being a mentor to other folks who wanted to incorporate the happy little circles in their communities.  🎉

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September 2, 2022

@Monique vdB thank you for sharing your story -- From a English professor to community manager, I believe it is a great achivement. 

John Funk
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September 2, 2022

Mine is kind of like Alex's. Jira came into my organization after I had only been there 3 or 4 months. It was used heavily on only one project, but I liked what I saw and picked up skills with it. There was no one dedicated to the tool, so I eventually took the administration upon myself. And then eventually was assigned a full time Jira Administrator position (the only one for 1,000+ users).

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September 2, 2022

@John Funk thanks for sharing.

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Brant Schroeder
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September 2, 2022

@vikram Just goes to show that we should always be looking for ways to help others.  One of the reasons I like Atlassian software is due to the foundation it is built on of collaboration and teamwork.  The company exemplifies this through it's teams conference.  In order to have a successful team you must work together and help each other.  Thanks for sharing your great experience.  

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September 2, 2022

@Brant Schroeder thanks for sharing your experience, rightly said work together and grow together.... 

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