Career or job?

I find myself asking this question consistently when I am thinking about what I want to do this summer. Do I want to start my career or do I want to just find a job where I can make some money?

I am leaning towards a career for sure, especially after attending several IIBA meetings here in Edmonton. The January meeting was especially a confirmation for me that I want a career in what I'm doing here at NAIT. For those that don't know, I am studying business analysis in the digital media and IT program here at NAIT. I really enjoyed helping to plan for and facilitate discussions at the January IIBA meeting, which we hosted here at NAIT. By we, I mean the Business Analyst Club, of which I am a Senior Officer. I really valued the insight of the industry professionals who were at my table who helped inspire me to continue to pursue my career in business analysis. Another thing that helped inspire me and convince me that I was on the right path was when the BA Club brought in some guest speakers, who were all business analysts from industry. They really provided valuable insight on the average day in the life of a BA as well as what they feel the BA not only should do, but what it is going towards.

On another note, there's a career fair today at school for all DMIT students. I'm really excited about this opportunity as well because it will give me another chance to meet even more industry professionals and more of an opportunity to find potential employers.

On yet another note, I got the opportunity to be a technical judge at the FLL Robotics Competition here in Edmonton again this year. It was to watch the kids robots creations and how creative they were in finding ways to solve the tasks that were given to them. As a technical judge, I judged not only how they designed their robot and coded it, but also how much thought and innovation they put into their design. It was really inspiring to see so many kids interested in robotics and amazing to see how advanced some of their logic was in their code. For those of you who don't know what FLL is, you can see the website here.

That's about all I have to say today. Check out my website here if you're interested in taking a look. I recently redesigned it a little bit, although a lot of it stayed the same. There is also some new pictures from Compelled 2010. Have a good one, R.