Gibson Jonathan wrote:
I'm 43, self-employed software designer, married with one kindergarten
aged boy. My wife is VP of Las Olas, an adventure travel company that
caters exclusively to women who wish to learn surfing, art, fashion,
golfing, "we make girls out of women" ... Check out
http://www.surflasolas.com/ if you gals think this is of interest. Guys,
this fills my life with lovely curves and giggles and is the closest
thing to living on a campus again.
I was not born a poor black child, but I did grow up in a cabin with
dirt floors on the Little Sandy river near Portland, Oregon. I come
from a multi-generation science-fiction clan and clearly remember my
first book in third grade was my mother's hard-bound "I, Robot," by
Asimov telling little Robbie's sad adventure. After High School I
painted some overlarge murals in downtown Portland before heading to New
Orleans to study painting and architecture. By the time this was ending
I was thoroughly disgusted with the intellectual fashion show
architecture really is, but I had already been bitten by the computer
system design bug and quickly turned a hobby into a Silicon Valley
career. I've run my own software development company since 1988 working
on the bleeding edge of multimedia, publishing CD-ROM libraries of
seamless, tile-able, textures for 3D rendering, games - but mostly user
interface design. My last salary gig was running a development team
working on interactive TV in Amsterdam before the dot-com crash sent me
and my fledgling family back to the San Francisco Bay Area. We live on
the Monterey Bay these days and as I am severely under-employed in these
gloomy neo-Depression days, I am wondering if I should have followed
through on my architectural inclination.
Have you considered trying to get a job with a company that writes
architectural software? Seems like that might be a decent fit. But I
understand the appeal of self-employment.
Julia
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