I don’t want to be merely percieved as having the skills necessary to do an important job.
I’d rather have the skills necessary to do a job that is percieved as being important.
The year has begun and, as usual, I’m starting behind. The details are unimportant, but I’m staring at my schedule and for the first time truly wondering if what I’m doing is useful and if it’s preparing me for what I want to do. And of course that’s a funny concept since I don’t know what I want to do.
In the short run I want to spend more time at Andy and Shawn’s place, and try to make some money on the side doing stuff with them. Shawn’s got talk of doing tech support work, which I could see doing on a limited basis, Andy has expressed interest in web development, which in my opinion would be awesome. Of course there’s the problem of not really knowing where to begin in addition to not really having the time. But time has a funny way of not being there when I don’t need it and being there when I do. Who knows, there’s word on the street of Austin Stone wanting to redo their website. I’d definitely like to start doing stuff if for no other reason than I miss code. I’m a huge nerd, I know, but even if it was just making a clean, few frills dynamic site for free or minimal payment I think I would enjoy it.
Potential is everywhere, for better and for worse. I think the most important thing for me is to remain optimistic and to go for opportunity when I see it. We’ll see how it goes though.