Striving for meaningfulness

My name is Ignacio and I’m 26.

When I was little I thought I wanted to become a veterinarian.
I absolutely loved animals, specially dogs. That hasn’t changed. Their unconditional kindness is inspiring and moving.

The idea of helping those loving creatures was very interesting to me.
Actually, the thought of devoting your work to help others (people or animals), and improve their lifes was inspiring.

Years went by and my fear of needles and other medical equipment made clear that wasn’t the right path for me. I was quite disappointed about this at the time.

Time went by and I got over it…

The page turned. I became a designer.
I really don’t know how I ended up here; but I love it.

After 8 years devoted to this profession, I couldn’t think about doing anything else. It’s challenging, ever-changing and complex.

However, I did discover something along the way…

I’ve never lost this deep desire in my gut of creating something meaningful. What exactly? I didn’t know.

Of course I think that all the work I’ve done and currently do, matters. If it wouldn’t, I wouldn’t be doing it. It gives happiness to my clients. They sell more, they communicate better or they are more respected.

And that’s great. But after all this time, I’ve been feeling it’s not enough for me. I feel I’m helping these tiny clusters of people one at a time. Great and nice people, but very few. Lot’s of work but little personal reward in the end.

I started to lose my spark, what I felt drived me every morning.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about switching my life to working at an NGO. That would be nice, but I’m too ambitious to stop there.
On top of that, I also want to follow my passion: design.

I discovered this permanent gut feeling matched other feelings of my actual co-founders. That’s why, we, as a whole, are more determined on following it now. We think it’s the right time.

We want to make something great that improves people lives. Of course, it will be our little grain of sand in the world. But a grain of sand that truly motivates us.

This feeling and motivation, in this great era of start-ups, took the shape of a product. We are working hard on it, and have high hopes for it as well.

Time will tell if it succeeds, but for now, we are focused on working passionately on it.

With this great strive for meaningfullness, I introduce myself to Medium. While hoping this dream comes true, I work hard and carry on.