In my relatively short career, I have been what most people consider fairly successful. I am not rich, I do not have a six-figure income, and I am not self-employed. I am self-made though, and I do have a very fulfilling job which I am proud to do. As such, I thought I might take some time to share with you some of my choices throughout life, and how they have affected me, and my career. I should preface this by saying that my ultimate goal is to work for myself, and successfully run a business, preferably some sort of website that people enjoy using. Short of attaining that lofty dream, however, I feel my conventional career path has been a successful one. My goals in career development are independent of my overall life dreams and goals, which I work on in parallel, using my free time. Developing a Career […]
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Do I really use the internets?
As a long time internet user, I have been wondering a lot lately; Do I really use the internet? I have been an internet, so-called, user since the days of AOL 1.0, CompuServ, and Prodigy. I probably haven’t gone more then a few days here and there without internet access since I was 12 years old. Now, I know I use the internet in the traditional sense: Searching for information, instant messaging, pay bills, play online games, and of course, creating web pages of my own. However, in the past few years so many trends have been developing that I just can’t seem to become a part of. It would seem that by having a network of friends and family who do not really make use of the internet, I am relinquished to not being able to truly use it myself. For example, I have probably 10 email addresses, but […]