My Career Minimize

Well I'm going to go ahead and preface this with this notice. I'm not really going to spout on about my achievements or the great things I may (or may not) have done in my time spent in well lit offices, jungles of wire bundles that make the most OCD of us cringe, or two days with a clicking hard drive in a computer and a bible sitting on my desk. I've been 'geeking out' for a decade straight now, and like many people who do what I do it all started very early on. While I could bore you about the first time at age 8 I powered up an Apple IIe and knew it was the future of everything after it, I'll spare the details.

What I would like to let anyone who stumbles on my silly website is that many things have changed in me. I once was overly ambitious, convincing myself so wholely that this idea of mine was the next big thing. Since I've calmed down, its been a journey trying to understand where my middle ground is. I've lost and loved, lost my loved, loved my lost, and loved being lost. I've wandered but never stopped wondering. I've been on the edges of death and wondering if God did in fact interviene a few times. I've been blessed with a group of friends and family that have supported me when I felt like I was on top of the world and when I was jobless and putting $3 in quarters into my gas tank to get to the next side job that would let me fill up.

I started out doing tech support, answering phone calls and worked my way out into the field. I built stuff where I started out wondering where the on button was and ended up learning a new programming language. There were many times in my own discovery and thirst for more I'd tell myself "its time to go to sleep or you're no good to anyone at work in five hours". I am still facinated by systems, by things we can't see or neccesarily touch, but we interact with them all day long. We remain so unaware by our convinences of technology we wonder how anyone before us lived without. I don't know if that is really progress or regress.

However it ends, I am thankful to be a part of an industry that shapes the world we know, questions us to look at what we percieve as reality, provides a platform for community across the globe, and gives us a different perspective at what we all knew from the first cave painting. Information, the exchange of ideas between us, is very powerful and beautiful. I'm glad to be in an era where art meets exchange, where the concepts we want are on a liquid crystal display just yearning to be etched a pixel at a time.

Feel free to email me for a copy of my resume if you're interested.


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