Exploring a Career Change
September 10, 2009, a Thursday evening.
For the last several years I've worked on the web in various capacities
and just recently began asking myself what it is I enjoy about it. I don't have an answer yet.
To help figure it out I've started taking a personal inventory.
These are some things I currently enjoy or have enjoyed doing in any capacity. I'm an INTJ
if that helps explain things.
Chopping down trees with friends and loading them onto flatbed trucks
Shoveling snow
Bicycling
Running/hiking on trails
Driving power boats
Tying ropes securely around boating cleats
Ultimate frisbee or just throwing a frisbee
Soccer
Writing music
Using digital recording equipment
Using digital instruments and effects
Making sound with Max/MSP
Watching movies over and over again
Stewarding counselors and campers at Fish Camp as a co-chairperson
Space Camp
Mountain biking
Climbing
Guitar
Drums
Singing
Acting
Making people laugh
Loading a car/truck/moving van just so
Making web sites run faster
Watching things automate
Playing strategy games
Making contraptions
Playing good, smart pranks that make people smile
Giving good advice
Sharing wisdom in situations
Seeing the big picture/pattern
Making movies
Writing words
Playing with my son
Model trains, planes, automobiles, and rockets
Flying
Starting my own business
Working with smart, motivated people at Startup Weekend (twice now)
Cocktails, beer, and wine, in any order
Good conversation with a small group of people
Learning
Eating pizza
Installing ceiling fans
Reading
Keeping up on the latest tech/web trends
Cleaning/wiping computers and re-installing software (call me crazy)
Laughing at good jokes/stories that have nothing to do with crude or offensive humor (two great examples are Bill Cosby and Sinbad)
Talking to smart people
Talking to passionate people
Talking to funny people
Ken Robinson is all three of the above (I watch this talk several times a year)
In the movie of my life that plays in my head from time to time, I am Chevy Chase as Fletch
Taking photographs
Thinking for long periods of time
Taking it all in
Doing just about anything with my wife, who is a rock star
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