I find myself at moments during the day mentally laying out
what my next blog might contain. Most of
those never actually make it here because between church, friends, family and
work this is not my top priority.
But today one of those thoughts came to mind as I left a
conversation at work. A conversation
that just 6 months ago would have consisted of words that sound familiar but
don’t actually mean anything to me. A
conversation that a year ago would have sounded like a completely foreign
language. I found myself thinking – HOW do
I know THAT? How am I at a mere (nearly)
30 years old, having no technical training or education, having conversations
with developers and system gurus and understanding what they are saying? HOW, with a Liberal Studies degree and a goal
of teaching, did I end up here? I image
my life in parallel as a teacher (my goal) and a product analyst (my actual
job) and I do NOT see a connection.
It is a series of non-eventful events that got me
here. This is not where I would have
ever imagined ending up. But man oh man
do I love it. My work here energizes me
(most of the time). It is difficult and
forces me to dig deep and learn things I probably have no interest in
learning. It is long hours of research and
fixing problems. It is a perfect fit for
me.
So even though I don’t know how I ended up here I am so very
glad I did. I get to use passions and
skills I didn’t even know I had and now couldn’t imagine a job that didn’t let
me do that.
And with that, I end this very boring blog that was written
purely because I just really like my job and felt like expressing that
sentiment.
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