I have always been a tea person. I have only gotten to the habit of drinking coffee over the past year, and even then it’s quite infrequent. I still need my coffee to come with plenty of sugar and milk (yeah call me wussy), and even then it’s not really that good.
I started to ponder what has changed. Why did I start drinking coffee? And the conclusion was that coffee is more exciting than tea. Sad but true. Most places don’t really offer any fancy tea options, where as with coffee you have a nearly endless list of options (ok, that’s stretching it quite far, we don’t have that many options on coffee either). But the branding is much more cool. A cup of organic coffee from from Peru (a wild guess) sounds and looks much more exciting than a cup of yellow label tea. There are some really cool and exciting tea brands available, but you can only get them from stores.
A cup of good green tea or chai beats coffee any day. So give me more variety (and not the chocolate chip tea -kind of variety)!
I want a tefé instead of café.
(after coming up with the word tefé, I checked.. and what do you know, it’s a city in Brazil which you can’t reach by road. How appropriate)
Time flies. Time crawls. But no matter what you do, you can’t make it reverse its flow.
Almost a year ago, right before my 28th birthday I was in France, having a great time with some of my nice friends. In the midst of fun games, beach life, electronic skateboards, and great food, I made a commitment to myself. I decided that I would accomplish something before I reach the mighty age of 30.
Since then a lot has happened. But all of that has been “normal” so to speak. Not taking any value out of those, but what I was after with my decision was to reach something extraordinary. Something brilliant. It doesn’t have to be anything big. As long as it’s meaningful. Something to be passionate about.
Making a commitment (or third) on this blog is as good a place to start as any.
30 years of age is a limit that means less and less the closer you come to it. However, it’s a limit that is currently sufficiently close and far for me to manage something. After all, setting personal deadlines does help in reaching your goals (or so they claim). Feel free to give me a kick if you see nothing happening.
468 days left and counting.
How often are you given a change to take a fresh start on your career?
Image by slowwkidd3923 @ PhotoBucket
New perspectives usually arise when you start at a new company or change from a position to another. It is interesting to notice how even the idea of working in a different environment, or in a different position in relation to your current environment, can lead to new insights. It does one good to sometimes stop and try to see things from the viewpoint of others. It does not only make you a nicer person, but also greatly enhances your chances of getting your own point-of-view understood by the others.
I will soonish take on the role of project manager, and I’m anxiously waiting how different things will seem compared to my experiences as a software developer. I have already spotted myself whining on things that are completely sensible for a developer to whine about, but make no sense on the project manager point-of-view. Will be an interesting road ahead…
My attemps at blogging have not really taken off. This time I’m trying to get myself back on the wagon and start writing out my thoughts on career development, IT-business and leading a happy life (talk about blog specialization another day, ok?).
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