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- zenmasterfoo
Not having a really good day, for lots of reasons. But it got me focused for a short bit. Just sat back and listened.
Recently we hired a developer aged between 65 and 75. He's a chipper fella. Nice to work with and full of stories.
I guess it's my mood but as he walked by I felt a small panic sweep around me, like a wave or cloud of heavy air. Something that said this is you, here, somewhere in the future.
What am I doing? What do I do? Who am I? What have I become? What can I do? It's all rushing on me at once and hard to digest, but I think I know something for certain. I need to change something, and change it fast.
Life is too short to be that guy, here, now.
- 20
you have half of an epiphany so far.
- Al_dizzle0
weird I had something similar today. After exchanging crappy emails with a client for the last couple of days I thought to myself, how long will I be doing this for? And I need to pick up some other kind of skill to lean on later in life.
- Diversifying is key; once you stop learning you stop growing and your life is over...ideaist
- 20
not the first time i've linked this thread in response to something similar:
http://www.qbn.com/topics/579601…
read through it (:
- iheartfun0
Sounds like an anxiety attack to me. Meds. Take them :)
- TheeOtherJuan0
Get over and get back to work!
- ideaist0
Fortune favours the bold homey...
Take a risk; be bold...
I, for one, packed up with my fiance and left Toronto (the big city) to start small art & design shop in a village of 1,200 people.
Best move of my life; once again in tune with nature, breathing fresh air, consuming fresh produce, etc.
Life comes in waves and true change often only comes drastically...
- SoulFly0
zenmasterfoo
face, you will be that 75 year old developer, walking into somebody's office, telling stories of how things were in the "old days" of FLASH and the mistake you made of never learning HTML5 when you had the chance
- CanHasQBN0
i know how you feel. i need change. i thrive on it.
i'm so very sick of spending all of my life staring at a monitor. my eyesight is going bad and holding the mouse all day has become painful. i can't see myself doing it for much longer. i'm done with it. just because i have a design degree, doesn't mean i have to do it for the rest of my life. there's the whole world out there to experience.
- scarabin0
i wanna do this forever. just be really, really good at it :)
- stoplying0
"Recently we hired a developer aged between 65 and 75. He's a chipper fella. Nice to work with and full of stories."
This is the most impressive part of the post for me. I NEVER see people this age getting hired, ESPECIALLY for a developer job!
Be thankful for what you got, and makes smart changes to fix what you don't like. And a beer or two might help unwind. It is Friday FFS.- I'm glad we did. I pushed for him and my boss surprised us.zenmasterfoo
- abettertomorrow0
First step is figuring out what you want out of life.
If you know what you want, you may not get what you want but at least you will be trying to get there. If you don't know what you want, on the other hand, it's safe to say your chances of getting what you want are extremely low.
- -Ancient Chinese proverbabettertomorrow
- yUPmoldero
- quote of the day!moldero
- i counted 728 "you's" in that paragraph.CanHasQBN
- mg330
I've been thinking somewhat similar things lately as well. My fiance and I were talking about that last weekend. We bought our first condo together in December and figure about 5 - 8 years in it. I'll be nearly 40 on the longer end of that time frame. I realized that when we're done with that, my hope is that we're looking to move from Illinois and get to something completely new in our lives, and not just find a bigger house and continue the same life we have.
We have a dream of opening a bed and breakfast somewhere someday. Something more contemporary and modern that would attract a younger crowd and people typically scared away from all the wicker and Victorian crap that usually comes with them. I want to have a place on a small lake where you can use kayaks, canoes, borrow bikes, go walking in the woods, go fishing, and in the winter go cross-country skiing. Maybe more of a dinner focus than breakfast - maybe have some local chefs featured once a month that people would make the reason for coming by. Big communal fire pit outside, some nice chairs and a dog that's always hanging around. Fresh air and the only care in the world to be happy and make guests happy. When I was out in Breckenridge, CO a few weeks ago, it really hit me that that area could be an incredible place to do something like this someday. I think about it constantly and I really hope this becomes a reality someday.