Submitted by Seth on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 09:56
I have had a very rewarding, but not fully satisfying, career as a programmer over the last decade. After a few varied jobs and a stint consulting, mostly for the finance industry, I landed a great job. I was working at a not-for-profit and able to do as I please with my chosen technology all while getting good benefits and pay. The job had a warm fuzzy feeling when I told people about it and I was proud to help facilitate change. To some it would sound like a dream job; it was a job my father’s, or maybe my grandfather’s, generation would have retired from. But I was not among my geek peers. Every day I spent there a little piece of curiosity inside me died, and it had been four years. There were a few things I felt I needed to do: 1) Meet more people like me, 2) learn some really new technologies and 3) Create something I could be proud of. I had decided I did not have enough time or energy to do this as a nights and weekends project and took the leap of faith, so a little less than a year ago I quit that job to start work on a new project, Me 2.0. I wanted to be a better programmer.
