Stuck at a Fork in the Life (er, road)
Well, this is my first post to this long in development/design site of mine! It feels pretty good to unleash it on the world, so I thought I would write a little bit about why it came to be.
Here's the deal. I'm having a bit of a pre-life crisis right now. What, exactly, is a pre-life crisis you ask? Well, I think a lot of students go through it after they graduate and it has everything to do with not knowing what to do. Thats right, I really don't know what to do with my life. Now, its not like I have absolutely no clue, because I know it has something to do with this little box I'm pouring these words into right now (psst, it's a computer...), but I don't know specifically what that something is. I like this whole web development kick I've seemed to be on for, well, a long time now; so, for now I'm going to go with that.
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Wait! You thought I said that I didn't know what I wanted to do? Well, I lied. A bit. My specific case of pre-life crisis happens to be something similar to: "Should I go get a 9 to 5 job, or should I continue on this freelance path I've been on for a while now?" There, that's my problem.
Those of you who know me are aware of the fact that since I graduated from Carleton in June I've been working on contracts for various clients doing web development (PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, XHTML, etc). This has been great so far, it's paying the bills and I get to be my own boss, a dream of mine for a long time. (The dream is being my own boss, not paying bills -- although I do have nightmares about that one from time to time.) So, I had to come up with something to do to keep doors open on both sides; something to help build my career -- ugh, I sound like a guidance counselor now.
That's where this site comes in. Along with allowing me to occasionally post personal stuff like what you are reading now, it provides a few more important functions:
- It helps build an online presence, since some people might actually find my articles here useful.
- It provides somewhere to show prospective employers my work.
- And, it serves as a reference for me.
Overall, I think the time invested to get this site up and running was definitely worth it. I hope to look back on this in a year and see it as one of the most important things I did in 2007. So, with that said I now go to sleep and ponder my situation some more.
Good Night.
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