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How do I overcome my railway Groucho Marx problem? 🤔

It's not “I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member” but “Why would any company in the railway sector consider me to work for them, as there’s nothing I know they don’t know already”

But I do need to find paid work, somehow. Question is how and for whom?

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https://jonworth.eu/how-do-i-overcome-my-railway-groucho-marx-problem/

How do I overcome my railway Groucho Marx problem?

"I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member" Groucho Marx is supposed to have said. And I have come to the view that I am facing something similar in my railway work. "Why would any company in the railway sector consider me to [...]

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Bruno Girin Jan 26

@jon
It sounds to me like you would be a great Product Manager for a railway company. They wouldn't hire you for your knowledge, they would hire you for your ability to collect knowledge from a number of specialist sources, understand it and its limitations and come up with a strategy to deliver a solution.

Your projects perfectly show your ability to do this.

I do exactly this in my day job, albeit in a different domain, if you want to have a chat about it.

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Jon Worth Jan 26

@brunogirin My partner is a product owner in the IT department of a healthcare firm. So I know what it entails, largely 🙂 And yes, I could probably do it for a railway company, but there's no way I can demonstrate I know how to do it currently as I do not have a qualification to show I can!

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Nils Pickert 🚂Jan 26

@jon @brunogirin your posts here and your blog are a quite convincing demonstration...

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Jon Worth Jan 26

@nilspickert @brunogirin A rail firm is not going to see it as a convincing demonstration though! "I can project manage a ridiculous crowd funded project to every corner of Europe, now will you give me real money and responsibility to handle?" "Errr, no!"

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Nils Pickert 🚂

@jon @brunogirin you manage to get finances for a project you have passion for, with zero official structure, without a support system and you generate continuous high quality output...