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who have unexpectedly captivating hobbies, illuminating the incredible synergies between career and hobby, and how they can inform and elevate one another.For Staer Nathan, career and athletics complement each other in myriad ways.
"His home in Copenhagen was very eclectic," he explains."It was a crazy art home, so visiting him there was always really interesting.""When I first started getting into creating things online, I was very frustrated with the tools," he recalls."They were just terrible, and I could never get things to look the way I wanted." By the time he finished high school, he taught himself code and was getting paid to design websites for clients.
When he returned to Canada, he built a thriving career in product, graphic and web design, while continuing to train and race. While he sometimes thinks about focusing full time on triathlons, Staer Nathan says he can't imagine giving up design."It's such a part of me that I couldn't not do it," he says."I think it allows me to have more balance."
He sees many parallels between his life as an athlete and his work as a designer. He has worked at startup companies and created apps from scratch."Those are all very big tasks that require a lot of planning and thinking ahead, as well as reacting in the moment and problem solving on the spot," he says."It's very similar to a race."
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