I know I am supposed to be posting once a week (at least that is what I am trying to commit to), but I missed last week because I was on a cruise. It was my first cruise and I think can get used to cruises. It is a nice mix of relaxation/chill and adventure/activity. I hope I find myself trying another cruise again sometime.
Well, the vacation was nice and it took me a day or two to get back into the swing of things but I am back to it. I have at least 3 app projects I am working on right now. I know some people do not like the context switching, but for my ADD, it is nice to switch between things when I get bored. I will share more about the projects when they get a little closer to coming out of stealth mode. But for now the most I will share is one is in the Environmental industry, one is in the RV space ( past history here ) and one is something I have been playing with for a while, you could say it is in the entertainment/education space. Like I said more to come on these.
But for now, I want to share a little more about what I have learned. I don't think this is a major new insight or anything like that but I think it is one of those things that I lose sight of from time to time when I let my career ambitions get in the way. The insight that has bubbled up again is, “ I really like to build things ”, and I mean all types of things. Sure I love building applications, I am a developer and I like what I do. There is nothing like that feeling of trying to build a new feature or trying something new and going through the struggle of “wait why doesn't that work? that should work? this piece of sh*t.” to “holy crap!!! it worked!”. I think it is the problem solving the sometimes sort of immediate gratification that you can get from seeing things actually work the way you expected them to. There is also those time when I learn something new along the way and can immediately apply it to all future work and understand why it is a better way of doing things. Okay so I am rambling now, but I definitely like to build things, and I need to do a better job at keeping that insight close as I look at new opportunities in the future.
