Homeward Bound
I'm at home now, trying to put a few things together and my future plans into perspective over September. Trying to decide where I go next in terms of work, career, and life.
Strangely, I seem to have been spending more time back in London than at home, relativity speaking, and at some point I do need to re-connect with my midland based networks. I'm still keeping good connections in London, there's still a lot of activities going on that I still want to be part of, and looking on how I can keep being involved with.
Major things include TedxTuttle, a mix of a Ted videos / talks and live banter, and some very interesting conversations and Spacemakers Relaunch with Dougald, and the opportunities for the re-use of empty space (another set of items to add to the to blog about list). There have been minor things too, lots of events and little things, but it is difficult to travel, and I'm conscious that I do have to find ways of not been cut of. Social Media tools help, but I find there the most useful for emphasising real events and relationships, so I want to look more locally too.
Mean while, work life continues, I took a bit of a slow down in September, but I still do web code and design. There's been some interesting talk about whether to separate out the web dev side of my site and establish different persona's. I still want to pursue the interesting stuff, but right now, financially I can make the web side pay, if I but serious efforts into it. What I really want is quiet time to work on my own projects to make new work that has for a long time been 'in the pipeline' that I talk about so much but never find the time to finish off, so that is what October will mostly be.
For decisions on where to go career wise, that's a more reflective look. Part of this is a persona's issue, just who do I identify myself as and in what context. I look at fellow RCA people and see them doing wonderful things, we are all on very different paths, but I can't help feeling that some people are more adapted at being a professional than I am. This time last year, I was still chasing job, interview, internship. Now, not so much, want to focus more on developing interesting work and experiences, and this has a lot to do with the experiences I've had and the people I've met over the last year. But this is a dramatic shift in terms of my own development workwise, and I'm having to learn to re-tool myself for that kind of world... The story continues into October.
Strangely, I seem to have been spending more time back in London than at home, relativity speaking, and at some point I do need to re-connect with my midland based networks. I'm still keeping good connections in London, there's still a lot of activities going on that I still want to be part of, and looking on how I can keep being involved with.
Major things include TedxTuttle, a mix of a Ted videos / talks and live banter, and some very interesting conversations and Spacemakers Relaunch with Dougald, and the opportunities for the re-use of empty space (another set of items to add to the to blog about list). There have been minor things too, lots of events and little things, but it is difficult to travel, and I'm conscious that I do have to find ways of not been cut of. Social Media tools help, but I find there the most useful for emphasising real events and relationships, so I want to look more locally too.
Mean while, work life continues, I took a bit of a slow down in September, but I still do web code and design. There's been some interesting talk about whether to separate out the web dev side of my site and establish different persona's. I still want to pursue the interesting stuff, but right now, financially I can make the web side pay, if I but serious efforts into it. What I really want is quiet time to work on my own projects to make new work that has for a long time been 'in the pipeline' that I talk about so much but never find the time to finish off, so that is what October will mostly be.
For decisions on where to go career wise, that's a more reflective look. Part of this is a persona's issue, just who do I identify myself as and in what context. I look at fellow RCA people and see them doing wonderful things, we are all on very different paths, but I can't help feeling that some people are more adapted at being a professional than I am. This time last year, I was still chasing job, interview, internship. Now, not so much, want to focus more on developing interesting work and experiences, and this has a lot to do with the experiences I've had and the people I've met over the last year. But this is a dramatic shift in terms of my own development workwise, and I'm having to learn to re-tool myself for that kind of world... The story continues into October.
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