I'm sitting at the office right now on a Friday afternoon. I have a few little tidbits of work to do that are mindnumbingly boring -- updating whitepapers.
I thought this job as "Product Manager" would be more rewarding than my job as "Application Developer".
As it turns out, when you stare at a computer for eight hours a day, five days a week, it doesn't matter if you're writing lines of code or lines or English, it drains the life right out of you.
Over the past five years, I have undergone a tedious transformation:
I was a complete loner geek with no girlfriend who spent all of his time in front of a computer
Then I became a social geek with no girlfriend who spent most of his time in front of a computer
Then I became a social geek with a girlfriend who spent a lot of his time in front of a computer
Now I am a social geek who dates girls and has fun who spends only his working hours in front of a computer
I no longer strive to be a Google developer who players counterstrike all day.
I want to be someone who deals with living, breathing individuals. A politician, a reporter, a lawyer.
My hobbies have gone from computer games, magic: the gathering and math contests to dating, comedy, swing dancing, political campaigning and writing.
But no matter how much I change myself, I am still a computer engineer who works for a software company. I'm too far into my degree to start over, my resume too far bent in one direction to unbend it.
I am posting this only in the hope that it provokes thought among the geeks here who might believe there is more to life... believe me when I say there is. But it's hard to get there... it doesn't happen over night... and you can paint yourself into a corner if you're not careful.
You can be a geek, know what it means to recompile your linux kernel and love a good episode of star trek while also still being HUMAN.
Remember, there was life before the computer. We evolved without the computer, we were built without the computer in mind.
I thought this job as "Product Manager" would be more rewarding than my job as "Application Developer".
As it turns out, when you stare at a computer for eight hours a day, five days a week, it doesn't matter if you're writing lines of code or lines or English, it drains the life right out of you.
Over the past five years, I have undergone a tedious transformation:
I was a complete loner geek with no girlfriend who spent all of his time in front of a computer
Then I became a social geek with no girlfriend who spent most of his time in front of a computer
Then I became a social geek with a girlfriend who spent a lot of his time in front of a computer
Now I am a social geek who dates girls and has fun who spends only his working hours in front of a computer
I no longer strive to be a Google developer who players counterstrike all day.
I want to be someone who deals with living, breathing individuals. A politician, a reporter, a lawyer.
My hobbies have gone from computer games, magic: the gathering and math contests to dating, comedy, swing dancing, political campaigning and writing.
But no matter how much I change myself, I am still a computer engineer who works for a software company. I'm too far into my degree to start over, my resume too far bent in one direction to unbend it.
I am posting this only in the hope that it provokes thought among the geeks here who might believe there is more to life... believe me when I say there is. But it's hard to get there... it doesn't happen over night... and you can paint yourself into a corner if you're not careful.
You can be a geek, know what it means to recompile your linux kernel and love a good episode of star trek while also still being HUMAN.
Remember, there was life before the computer. We evolved without the computer, we were built without the computer in mind.
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