Am I a technophobe?
No. Far from it. My interest in (digital) photography reflects its ideal merger of art and technology.
Do I like engineering?
Far more complicated. And I don’t have a glib answer handy for this one. I think my dissatisfaction arises because I don’t feel like I’m doing anything meaningful. Or see myself doing anything meaningful in this field. I mean, I’ve done a fair bit of development so far. Worked on simulators, mobile device libraries and server-side code. But I can’t see anything I’ve done ever helping someone. Would the world be any better off if you could download rights-enabled ringtones to your phone? Would a user somewhere really care about that functionality? I doubt it.
I talk about so much. Think about so many problems. Care about so much. And I want badly – so badly – to make a difference.
And I don’t know how.
I also have this problem. If I didn’t care about my family and fiancee so much, I would consider going t o some third world country and directly helping people who really need it. Sometimes I try to think of a better motivational system (money is the one in place now) so that people would have more of a reason to help others. I don’t really get anywhere as my life is seems too busy to spend much time thinking about it. Really, Allen what is preventing us from going and doing something really helpful?
I have the same problem. If I didn’t care about my family or fiancee so much, I would consider going to some thrid world country, getting my hands dirty directly helping those who need it. Sometimes I try to think about a better motivational or econonical system so that people would have more of a reason to help others. I don’t get very far with it because my life seems very busy and I don’t have time to stick with it for very long. Really, Allen, what is preventing us from going and doing something really helpful?
haha, hope you enjoyed that double post :P
Hmm. Aactually, it wasn’t quite a double post was it? Can you spot the differences? I had to retype it because I thought the first one wasn’t submitted properly. Hope you like the taste of spam =D
You merit a front page mention :-)