What is this Foolish Careers thing?
The community for those of us who ignored the advice to get a sensible career
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Have you ever been told to get a more sensible career?
If so, Foolish Careers is for you. It’s an interview series featuring writers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs who ignored this advice to pursue a creative career instead.
You might be thinking…
Oh no, yet more generic career advice to “follow my bliss” 🙄
I’m tired of those tepid listicles too. Those fluff pieces that tell us to “follow our heart” and “find our passion” but don’t explain how to start, how to build, how to make money, and pay the bills.
Foolish Careers is a response to all that. We unearth specific, actionable tactics from creative professionals who are figuring out how to build successful careers in Asia, so the rest of us can apply them to our own endeavors.
If we call ourselves a creator, maker, or artist, we are also entrepreneurs. We need to be as creative in how we run our career and business, as we are with developing our craft.
What you can expect
Every week, we publish one article with actionable takeaways alongside an audio interview where our trusty creator tells their story in their own words.
Here are some of the people we’ve lined up:
Budjette Tan, co-creator of the graphic novel Trese and advertising executive: Persistence, collaboration, selling to Netflix, and tactics for finding creative pockets of time
Kristine Fonacier, Esquire’s first female editor-in-chief: How swapping rock-and-roll journalism for volunteer work led to a more substantive writing career
Rachel Elman O’Shea, chef and co-founder of Laos Buffalo Dairy: What building from scratch really looks like, and what it will take to keep going post-COVID
Gerald Lu, sommelier: How does one learn about wine when Singapore has no teacher? Wine for Dummies, of course.
Simply subscribe to the newsletter to get the latest interview, free. As a subscriber, you also get to meet other “fools” on the same road of building a unique, singular, and fulfilling foolish career.
We start on Saturday, January 30, 2021. Hope to see you then.
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Hi Tami,
Can't wait to read more on Foolish Careers. I am Tonya Whitaker, former community newspaper journalist (13 years), technical writer (1.5 years) and accounting assistant (2 years). In 2021, I have decided to concentrate on the miseducation of minority and underrepresented students in the education system. I live in the Dallas area and currently work as an part-time English professor at the local community college. Most of my students are Black and Latinx. They are current in high school seeking to get a jump start on their college and careers. Good idea on paper, but it exposes too many flaws that leads to minority students being stuck in college developmental classes. I foolishly believe that journalism is the best way to prepare K-12 students for future college and career aspirations.