Anyone that knows me should know that I'm often goofy, but not often really happy. I really feel frustrated and grumpy, a lot. If folks would just listen and do things the right way, I wouldn't feel this way. Seriously, that's how I feel a lot of the time. Yet, I occasionally get sappy. Prepare to be sapped.
I got a job working for Boomer Consulting, Inc. in February. I develop the software that runs the web site, or at least integrate and hack it. Prior to getting this job I was feeling really stifled at K-State. I liked what I did. I liked the folks I worked with. The pay wasn't terrible. The perks were alright. The medical plan was excellent. Yet, I felt stifled. I'd started losing interest. I was getting more frustrated than usual. And I wasn't doing the thing I like most: building web sites.
Moving to Boomer has allowed me to engage in my favorite occupation, but it also has done something more. It's freed me to think about things I hadn't really dealt with for months. I'd started to let the New Hope web site slide. My own web site practically vanished for months. My ~Sterling site went down and still hasn't come back (I still plan on it, by the way, for holding my resumé and such), and I'd really gotten kind of burnt out on everything.
I'm not sure what it is about the move to Boomer, but a great weight has been lifted in the process. Of course, the weight of deadlines and hard work weigh down on me more than my last position. I think the other part of this that has shifted the tide is that I've given up on the frivolous plans to build a CMS. I have new plans for contentment.org, but those plans don't feel nearly so urgent as my plans to build Contentment the CMS.
Anyway, I'm feeling really good about the things God has done in my life over the last six months. I've started getting back into my Bible again, praying, and taking time to do things besides stare at a screen 20 hours a day (I think I'm now down to 17). :-P
Cheers.
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