A Break from Theologizing

Well, I am on to a new pursuit in my life/vocation. After 30-some-odd years, I may have finally settled on a career. I have completely embraced my inner nerd (OK, so it's never really been all that inner). As you know, I've been in web design merely a year now, but in that short year I have been introduced to a world of opportunity...including (but not limited to) design, photography, marketing, and programming.

I love design, but I find it gets downright draining when you do it full time. The constant demand for creative output can become as difficult as creative opression.

I've also developed a deep and abiding interest in photography, and I'm pretty sure I'm not half bad at it. However, it's difficult to really make money at it without being some globe-trotting, hard-core adventurist or the polar opposite, a wedding/portrait schedule-driven, customer-enslaved businessperson (ahem...NOT my personality).

I'm not a marketer, really. I have great ideas from time to time, but no follow-through (my life-long struggle...dare I label it an illness :).

Enter the discovery of computer code, glorious code! The more code I learn, the more I find there is to learn. My curiosity is not only peaked, but daily fueled by more and more amazing discoveries about what one can force text and images to do on a computer screen. I love that I know how to design a web page, but what I really want to do is slice up that design, reduce it to hundreds of obscure commands, and breathe life into it via HTML and her myriad offspring languages like XHTML, Javascript, AJAX, CSS, ASP.NET, etc., etc., etc. There is so much to learn! So much to do! The work is both creative and analytical...not to mention lucrative.

So I'm stocking up on how-to's and burning the midnight oil practicing my latest craft.

Ah, the fabulous nerdiness of it all...