Monday, March 20, 2006
Was I ever there?
I get a lot of calls from technical recruiters, and in fact I just accepted some high-level part-time consulting work in addition to being the Director of Technology of a downtown Manhattan web development company. I started to wonder how these people were finding me, as I just got off the phone with a very aggressive recruiter from Bloomberg, and about two months ago Microsoft was pressing me pretty hard to come on board with them. So I did a search on my name in Google and was suprised to see my resume in the top spot. I was only slightly more suprised to see this blog right beneath it.
I started to read through my blog expecting to get a blast of nostalgia about my times in Korea, especially since I'm planning to head back later this year. What I got, however, was the sense that I was reading someone else's blog. I could kind of remember my times there, but it read more like something someone else had written.
My first thought is just about how firmly entrenched in New York I've become. Before, I had programming jobs that I could (and did) leave on a moment's notice. Now I'm 30 and I spend most of my day making decisions about other people's jobs. If I make a mistake, I could cost someone else their job. Falf of the people I work with have kids, so I could be affecting someone's family.
Why am I bringing this up here? Because I guess this is growing up. I don't know if I'm ever going to have the chance again to just say "f**k it" and move off to another continent for a couple of months. I want to, but there's a lot more depending on me these days than there ever was before. Jeez, I'm going to be MARRIED in a few more weeks.
And you know what? I'm cool with it all. My adventures aren't over just because I'm 30.
I started to read through my blog expecting to get a blast of nostalgia about my times in Korea, especially since I'm planning to head back later this year. What I got, however, was the sense that I was reading someone else's blog. I could kind of remember my times there, but it read more like something someone else had written.
My first thought is just about how firmly entrenched in New York I've become. Before, I had programming jobs that I could (and did) leave on a moment's notice. Now I'm 30 and I spend most of my day making decisions about other people's jobs. If I make a mistake, I could cost someone else their job. Falf of the people I work with have kids, so I could be affecting someone's family.
Why am I bringing this up here? Because I guess this is growing up. I don't know if I'm ever going to have the chance again to just say "f**k it" and move off to another continent for a couple of months. I want to, but there's a lot more depending on me these days than there ever was before. Jeez, I'm going to be MARRIED in a few more weeks.
And you know what? I'm cool with it all. My adventures aren't over just because I'm 30.
