My Goal In Life

I’m a tech guy. There’s no way around it. I work with computers and I love it. I enjoy fixing them. There’s a rush that you get when you finally fix an issue that’s been staring you in the face for hours. As much as I love it, I don’t want to do it everyday, all day. To me, once I make it my job, I’ll start to hate it.

I’ve never had a “real job”. I’m worked for money. I’ve made a living. For what I can do, a “real job” means sitting in a cubicle/office or standing behind a counter and writing invoices so I can later work on a machine that an over-emotional customer has brought in because they were playing around with things they shouldn’t have been. Doesn’t sound like fun, does it? Even though I love fixing computers, I don’t want to deal with that. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to find a job that allows me to do that along with several other responsibilities so that I don’t hate it. That’s why I’ve done Internet radio, freelance tech support and now run a tech startup that caters to gaming news sites. I get to work on computers. I get to code. I get to do graphics. When I get tired of doing one of those jobs, I can focus on the other two.

We’ve recently written a service agreement so that we can take clients and actually start making money. While that wasn’t the goal, it’s a nice product of our work. There are days that I hate my job. I don’t always want to look at code, hardware or graphics. That’s a part of life. At least this way, those days are few and far in between. I love my job.

I’m doing something I like. Isn’t the the goal everyone has for their life? I may not be exactly where I’d like to be but I’m working on it. I’d eventually like to make enough money that I don’t have to worry about whether or not I’ll be able to pay my bills and buy food. Right now, that’s a struggle. I’m not too worried though. I knew that there would be a time in my life that this would happen. I’ve just taken the steps necessary to begin to turn it around.  I’m not typically a planner but I have a plan for my life. I know what I want and what I’m willing to do to get there. There’s really nothing else I can do. Once things start working out how I’d like them to, life will get much easier. The real test is in how long it takes me to get there.

As time goes on, I’ll start sharing that plan with you. Maybe it will be the motivation you need to start making a plan of your own. In the next few days, I’ll start sharing where I’m at in the process and show more as I start to progress toward my goal. I hope to be able to write about what it’s like to reach that goal some day.