A lot in life

First off, I'm glad to say whatever bug I had I now seem to be largely over. And not a moment too soon. I still have a couple of residual symptoms, but these are fading quickly and darn near inconsequential compared to what I've been putting up with.

Secondly we have a new face in the increasingly incestuous Delete The Web community. Take a bow Mija (who happens to have one darn spiffy looking website, though I might not be the best person to pass judgement on that ;)

Mija's already brought one interesting question to the fore of my mind, namely what's your perfect job. I'm well aware that there's likely to be a serious bout of job hunting in my not to distant future, and whilst I've been thinking vague thoughts about continuing doing computer programmer/developer type work, I hadn't really considered that it's not the only option. Oranges are not the only fruit after all.

Of course, whilst it's easy to look around and realise that there a nigh infinite number of jobs worthy of consideration (many of which I could do well at and several of which I could probably excel at), the problem quickly becomes that there are a nigh infinite number of jobs worthy of consideration. This has always been one of my greatest weaknesses - when faced with a large number of potential options, I invariably collapse into a quivering heap and beg the person nearest me to make the decision on my behalf. Or at least, that's what I would have done once. These days I'm a little more capable of deciding for myself. But only a little.

Still, deciding on which route for my life to journey down is far from an easy task. I'm obviously not ruling out programming. It's work I both enjoy and happen to be good at. It's just so... inconsequential? Obviously my feelings about it are heavily influenced by my current job, and let's face it, in the grand scheme of things, churning out web sites for an array of football clubs is unlikely to make the world a better place. On the other hand, arguably the majority of coding work will ultimately produce transient products, the majority of which won't do much to improve humanity or society. But it's work that fills my time and pays well enough.

It's just that I want to be doing more than filling time. I don't want to get to the end of my years (a long time hence) and look back at my life to see that all I managed to accomplish was to pass time. There's more to life right?

Now where to start...?

If anyone needs me, I'll be out back curled into a quivering heap...