hello 2010
by bear
When I was in high school I seriously looked forward to 2010 as all of my favourite science fiction authors pegged the next decade as when a lot of action would be happening in space. Sadly it seems that we won’t be seeing any of that (at least not yet) but I still think it will be an interesting decade.
If you had asked me 6 months ago how things were going I probably would have given a mixed shrug as I was still in the middle of dealing with my father- in-law and his rapidly declining health and, to be honest, I was glad to 1) have a job and 2) have a house so that we (Elaine and myself) didn’t have even more things to worry about. But then right at the end of summer he passed on and now, after dealing with that event, things are sure looking different.
Two years ago we suddenly found out that most of us at OSAF were out of a job but that turned into a chance to join my first-ever startup - Seesmic. Now as I approach my second year at Seesmic I’m looking forward to see what happens next both personally and professionally.
The work i’ve done with XMPP and Python have really payed off, the rest of the world (well, ok, the web part of it) have really caught on to realtime data flow and XMPP is playing a big role in that and Python remains a good language to code in for both XMPP and other back-end apps.
So yea, big changes have happened and more to come I’m sure, but as long as I’m enjoying what I do (which I am) and as long as I keep my skills fresh, I don’t see any reason to not just keep moving along and enjoying this amazing field I call a career!