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Backtracking to a meme
Jun. 11th, 2006 08:26 pmFrom hoosier_red, a few weeks ago.
THEN: June 1996
NOW: June 2006
( and so we go )
18) Looking back at your decade-ago self, are you where you thought you would be in 2006?
No, not at all. I knew that I'd last about 10 years in software, but I didn't have a solid idea of what would come next. I suspected higher level design or something with a more regular work schedule, but no clear ideas. However, by that time I was just barely, barely, not even really, starting to realize that if I wanted that retirement as a gentleman farmer with a home office and short stories to write into my dotage, maybe I should get some practice in along the way.
But even by then, I'd figured out that "plans" are a just a shorthand way of labelling "things that won't happen". I'd already left with my B.S. and didn't go straight on to graduate school, so I knew that whatever I thought my life was going to be like, was probably wrong. I was right.
THEN: June 1996
NOW: June 2006
( and so we go )
18) Looking back at your decade-ago self, are you where you thought you would be in 2006?
No, not at all. I knew that I'd last about 10 years in software, but I didn't have a solid idea of what would come next. I suspected higher level design or something with a more regular work schedule, but no clear ideas. However, by that time I was just barely, barely, not even really, starting to realize that if I wanted that retirement as a gentleman farmer with a home office and short stories to write into my dotage, maybe I should get some practice in along the way.
But even by then, I'd figured out that "plans" are a just a shorthand way of labelling "things that won't happen". I'd already left with my B.S. and didn't go straight on to graduate school, so I knew that whatever I thought my life was going to be like, was probably wrong. I was right.