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A week ago, I jump started my career planning process. There were no wakeup-call type of experience that prompted my move. But, rather a feeling of dissatisfaction backed by a perceived disconnect between where I am,/what I am doing today (qualitatively), and where I want to be (vaguely know this).

At 29 years young, I might be experiencing what some call “mid career crisis”. I personally think that is a good problem to have (the earlier the better). At least in my case, it prompted me to take my career more seriously and start the dreaded process of planning it.

Ok, enough talk and here is the action plan:

First: Find a mentor: accomplished, luckily for me I found a great sensei.
Second: What am I planning for? what do I want to be? That is what I am reflecting on right now. Not that I am completely clueless, But rather blurred on what it is.

I am in the information technology business, I got into it not by choice but stayed the course willingly. I am what one would call(in this age) a knowledge worker, I enjoy the challenges my profession expose me to, and find satisfaction in working on/with some of the bleeding edge technologies. So, I luckily don’t have the problem where I think I am in the wrong profession… (At least for now, I still think I would make one heck of a DJ :)).

The question for me is how could I move forward to be in a position where I can make greater impact and drive bigger endeavors in my field of expertise.

I decided, in order to answer that question, I would start by laying down my personal vision about the industry I am a fellow of. I will let that vision and those set of convictions guide me to the answer. I believe through that process, finding out what I want to be will come naturally to me…

I will post the bits and bytes of that vision soon…and soon after my career development plan(first draft).

Today I stumbled across a couple neat blogs about theme design, My current blog theme is from one of them. I will probably stick with this one and mod to my taste, although I really like Bartelme’s current Theme. Until he makes it public, I will be waiting. That is said the guy has been giving out his former themes, one of which is pretty clean too.

happy Theming

This is still work on progress, still trying to get the look fit my bill.

Keep coming back for posts. They should start trickling in soon. as to the topics…finally I thought I d open the flood gates and let the world see the light(s)…that is, experience yet another philosophy, set of theories, opinions, wisdom(or lack thereof) and yeah eccentricities( I exhibit few of those too).

welcome to my nascent blog…