Getting back in the game

Edit: This post was composed with and posted from Google Docs.  The plan was to post it to my personal blog, and it ended up here instead.  Rather then delete it, I figured I would just cross post.  It seems appropriate.  My apologies for any Rss Reader weirdness!  Sherry, stop laughing.

So I've been gone for a bit. The past few months of my life have seen some shifts in my life. First off, I've gone back to school. After a year and a half of exploring the tech industry and trying to figure out where we are all going, I feel I've learned enough about the new information/attention economy to go back and do it right. I'll be taking all the lessons about social learning I've learned from the web these past few years and applying them to how I approach academia this time around.

From the months of November through January, I held my first retail position. (*Gasp!* Say it isn't true Tim, a 'real' job?!) It was an absolutely amazing experience working for Apple Inc.: what was once Apple Computer Inc. once upon a time when I first started out. I learned a bit about work ethic (namely how to better segment my time), but more so I learned about how more consistent income leads to a clarity of mind I'd never experienced before. Go figure.

So now I have all these different pieces and experiences behind me, where is my life headed? Should I continue to go the entrepreneurial route? How about the academic route? My parents seem to like that idea. And then there's the option working a 'real' job: a job wherein the role and responsibilities required have been previously determined within an already existing and self-sustaining system.

Perhaps the most important lesson I've learned the past few months is that I put too much pressure on myself.

Here's a question I've never asked myself: Why can't I have everything?

Oh, hell. It's worth a try. School, work, extracurricular entrepreneurial ventures? Bring it on. What's the worst that can happen?

I'm throwing my hat in! I'm getting back in the game.