how to get opportunities flowing your direction #careeradvice #techcareer

13 May 2025 · 1 min

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Taylor Desseyn explains how to create your own opportunities instead of waiting for them to come to you. Show up at conferences, network, speak publicly, and put yourself in rooms where things happen. The people who get ahead aren't lucky, they're just visible.

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If you want some of these opportunities to flow your direction, you've gotta be in the stream where these opportunities are happening. I'm seeing a lot of people that I know, like, and trust and respect online, and they're always like out there doing something. And they're getting all these opportunities, they're meeting friends at conferences, they're speaking at conferences, they're getting new jobs, they're doing all of this stuff. And the realization, I could either watch these other people do this stuff and be frustrated that it's not happening for me, or I could like introspect and see, well, are they doing something differently? If you want some of these Opportunities to flow your direction, you've got to be in the stream where these opportunities are happening. You can't just sit at home, be bitter, when other people are willing to take the risk to be a— Purist.