Daniel Seddiqui, age 23, is on a mission to work 50 jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks.
A gamechanger identifies and plays a productive game. Focuses on preparation more than planning. Is more concerned with getting results than in producing specific outcomes. Seddiqui could not be playing this game if he hadn’t prepared. And he could not have imagined a particular outcome. (Note that his ‘50/50/50 objective’ for the game is different from its ‘business outcomes’.) What Seddiqui trusted was that he was initiating a game that would produce results, and cause positive things to happen. New relationships would form. There’d be new experiences had. Skills learned. Insights gained. Possibilities awakened.
He is not sitting at home living the inevitable bad economy cliche, sending out job applications and getting rejected. Instead he created a game that generates acceptance in massive doses. David Seddiqui is creating a narrative in which he gets 50 job offers–and he’s going to accept all of them! Good story.
In Living the Map, Daniel Seddiqui is sending a three great big, important messages to the world:
1) All work is honorable. We should not judge a person by what it is they do, but by how they do it. Respect the work, respect the worker.
2) So what if you have 50 different jobs in your life? That’s a goal. Working in one place, at one job forever is drudgery. This is one generation telling another that it can stick the gold watch up its ass.
3) There’s work, lots of it, that needs doing. But you’ve got get out and find it, player. It is not going to find you.
Tags: 50 Jobs, 50 States, 50 Weeks, David Seddiqui, Economy, Initiation, Jobs, Living the Map, Mission, Outcomes, Results, U.S., Walkabout, Work
Awesome. I wonder if he’ll put all 50 on his resume
Even though it is more “play” than “work”, the idea and the execution of forcing him out of his comfort zone is really something, few people could do that every week.
I think this IS his resume. 17 weeks in, he’s already getting job offers via Facebook.
I’d only dispute your characterization of Daniel’s game as ‘more play than work’. It is definitely playful in spirit, but it is a also LOT of work, just in terms of the effort he’s got to be putting out, not only in making the trip, but chronicling the narrative. It is also about connecting and exposing his audience to different kinds of work. It’s got to be exhausting for him. I hope at least a few of the jobs he takes in weeks 40-50 are pieces of cake like ‘mattress tester’ and ‘toll both attendant’
How is the book coming are you about done with it, oh just to let you know I don’t go to Farview any more and don’t miss it, I also don’t blame you for not liking the meat packing job. Hope to see you on March 30 at your talk just have to find out the time you will be speeking. Please tell your Mom & Dad we said HI.