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122 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 28 Oct \ on: Talent redux mostly_harmless
Best of luck to you on the transition. We'll all benefit from it if it means you will be around more.
That Stocker article hits very close to the bone for me. Maybe it's more common to relate to than I had imagined. I seem to recall you being ambivalent about your job for a while. Taking the plunge is really an act of courage.
I spent twenty years in a business I was competent enough at but that I despised. I felt I had no choice but to push through the drudgery for family financial reasons.
I don't regret it, but I'm now in a position where the time flies by while I play at learning things that I do not have an aptitude for, but I'm enjoying myself.
Best of luck.
Thanks for the kind words.
the time flies by while I play at learning things that I do not have an aptitude for
What are the successful strategies for this kind of play? Any tips? I'm already feeling the tug that I need some bigger purpose, and (perhaps most acutely) a community to go along with it.
Which is dangerous, when you try to satisfy those instincts through the mechanism of "work". I think a lot of what we talk about when we talk about work is a masquerade for these deeper things; it's just there's no culturally-compatible concept to draw from. "Work" is the closest approximation that people can compute.
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Very true. Simplified by the old cliche. I'm still wondering who came up with it first:
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