Fine-tuning the shovel

My education is funny. During the last semester there's always these talks with the educators and an accountant. They spend a couple of hours (more like three) talking about two things; there are a ton of jobs, and how difficult it is to make it in the real world.

And both are true. I've always been blessed, or talented enough, that the opportunities actually presented themselves. Even when I had started growing tried a couple of years ago, suddenly I had the opportunity to work with a big client. That's when I decided to take the leap and I tried to make it as my own boss. It worked out better than I could have hope for. But at one point, when the talk about kids, family and balance started getting more and more serious I knew that it wasn't feasible - at least not for me.

That's when I decided I had to go back to my old job. Where I have already climbed the ladder, almost as far as it goes.

I remember clearly where I was when 9/11 happened. I was 7 years old, and I was sitting on my parents computer, coding my own website. I've always been interested in tech, coding and computers in general. Just as with so many others it started out with gaming; Counter-Strike to be more precise.

This interest has never left me, not even when I decided to follow my heart and not my head when deciding what to do with my career. Looking back everything pointed towards a job where I would spent most of my time on a computer. I'm a problem solver at heart, and I have the mind of an engineer.

And then when I saw GenAI... One of the first releases of Midjourney on Discord I knew it. I had to embrace it - and I did. It's easy to say that I knew that it would change my field dramatically, but I did. I just didn't have the brain power to imagine how fast it would move. Since 2022 it went from being something I enjoyed playing around with in my free time to being what I spend most of my time on at work. And I love it.

I now consider myself working in tech, but I've actually ended up in the eye of the hurricane. Everything around me is changing, but I'm thriving. I get to use my nerdy engineering-brain to solve creative issues.

I often joke that at the moment it feels more like I'm just fine-tuning the shovel that's currently digging the grave for my original field to be put in.

/ mtn.