The Groundwork

Part 3 in my Switching Careers Series

This week was spent drawing bugs bunny and imagining these 2 characters I got swimming around in my head. One a turtle and one a bunny. It’s late on Sunday and I have to be up for work early but I wanted to keep…

The real reason you should do what you love

You should only leave behind what you knew if an idea has enchanted you so thoroughly that not engaging it would hurt more than letting the steady ground slip out from beneath you.

Career change- in a mature economy, is it really possible?

The longer you have been doing the same thing, the more difficult, and potentially rewarding, career change is likely to be.

‘We become what we become by doing what we do’

Quitting

When is it time to get out?

“Quitters never win,” “don’t be a quitter,” “no one likes a quitter.” We’ve all heard these things before. In our society, “quitter” is a put-down; it bears an implication of morally inferiority, and a warning that future success is dependent on avoiding…

You think you know

Life asks us to make decisions based on anticipated feelings. We choose a college based on where we think we’ll be comfortable 4 years down the road. We choose a field of study based on what we think our postgrad-selves will want to do. We sign 12 month apartment leases, as if anybody knows…

From a Teacher to a ?

It’s been a wonderful journey teaching university kids on how to program for the web effectively for a long time. Teacher, a noble profession as they call it, is always considered as the one profession that creates all other professions in the world. As the age old adage goes, I truly…