Grow Your Career With WordPress

Sarah Pressler@sarahpressler

sarahpressler.comsarah@brainstormmedia.com

A Little About Me Community Engagement & Project Manager at BrainstormMedia.com

Professional Writer

Professional Ballet Teacher

Professional Kid Wrangler

Professional Twitter Addict

BrainstormMedia.comCreative Business Solutions

•Web Development and Design

•Enterprise WordPress

•Brand Development

•Plugin Authors

•Wordpress Core Contributor(s)

Internationally Distributed Team

Paul Clark @pdclark

Technical Director

Taylor Aldridge @tayloraldridge

Creative Director

WE BUILD GREAT THINGS WITH WORDPRESS WE HELP OUR CLIENTS EXCEED EXPECTATIONS

This Talk Is Not….

Why Are You Here?

WordPress Super Hero Academy

Five Year Plan1)Flailing, Reading and

Doing

2)Networking, Planning and Doing

3)Making Money and Doing

4)Doing and Living

5)Doing and Thriving!

There was actually a point in life where I didn’t know what patches or commits were. Matt Mullenweg

@photomatt

Founding Developer, WordPress

Watch Matt’s 10yr History of WordPress KeyNote Address YouTube

Start asking yourself questions:

What do you love?What do you gravitate towards in the first place?Why WordPress?

Those are the questions you have to answer first.Oh, and, learn to code!

Austin Gunter@austingunter

Marketing, WP Engine

Learn more about Austin and his journey at austingunter.com

I think there’s real opportunity to build healthy businesses with innovative solutions in the WordPress space… I would just caution anyone who thinks this space is any kind of gravy train.

Jake Goldman @jakemgold

President, 10up

See more from this interview at MattReport.com.

Career Fields in WordPress

Advice For The Journey

Building genuine relationships and contributing to the WordPress community can strengthen your business and elevate your reputation.

Instead of working against your competitors, creatively find ways to collaborate with them and sharpen your offerings.

Carrie Dils@cdils

Genesis Developer, carriedils.com

Watch Carrie’s very engaging and informative talk from WordCamp San Francisco.

You Are 100% Responsible

The Last Flowchart You Will EVER Need

Problem

Can you do anything about it?

Yes!

Then Do It!

No?

Then Find Someone Who Does!

Let me tell you right now, you are not trapped by your own life. Whatever it is that you think is standing between you and your dream, it is time to list those out and get some answers because the answers are simpler than you think.

Paul Clark@pdclark

Technical Director, BrainstormMedia

Enjoy Paul’s inspirational talk first given at TEDx Anchorage and the well received Lightning Talk given at WordCamp Portland.

In taking a step we throw ourselves off-balance and then catch ourselves, over and over. I remember laying in bed and thinking about how cool that was. Then I thought about running. That blew my mind.

Taylor Aldridge@tayloraldridge

Creative Director, BrainstormMedia

Taylor writes an amazing blog, it will inspire you towards authenticity! Check it out.

Resources For Learninglearn.wordpress.org

This new site is a work in progress, and will be your source for handbooks, downloadable training materials, and information about educational events.

codecademy.comHTML/CSS, Javascript/jQuery, Python, Ruby, PHP, and APIs

ithemes.com/wordpress-resourcesLearn and Grow, then Teach and Share

WordPress for DummiesWritten by Lisa Sabin-Wilson – essential book for beginners!

Blogs – Twitter Feeds – YouTube – WordPress Forums