Another year older
Although I am almost a week late with this, my 26th birthday came and went last Sunday. It was a good day, laid back, no stress. Every year I go into my birthday wondering whether I will feel any different on the other side and, for the past few years, I have felt the exact same before my birthday as I did afterwards. However, this year, I have been putting some thought into exactly what it is I want to do with my life. What are my goals? What would I like to be doing in five years (the quintessential interview/review question)? I have never really had a solid answer to either question, so I am determined to put some thought into it and see if I can come up with any answers.
February 5th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Isn’t this kind of self-searching both fun and draining?
February 6th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
It is fun when you can make some progress. However, I find it mostly draining because I tend to go in circles with my self-searching — coming back to the same things over and over again.
March 14th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
[...] These questions seem to stay in my mind more and more these days as I try to figure out what I really want to be doing with my life. Currently, I am very interested in programming language theory and in operating system design but neither of these interests are very revolutionary. Am I just not visionary? Does this mean that I just do not have what it takes to change the world? In the movie, Bill Gates says something like you have to figure out what someone needs, but does not realize that he needs, and then sell it to them. Are the ideas really so visionary or is it just being in the right place at the right time? [...]