The year started in dire shape with no work and no bites for months, one foreclosure done and another looming which was narrowly averted with help from friends for which I am eternally grateful.
In June I got some contract work in Alberta doing whacky things with FPGAs and windows software. However, personnel clashes and the ever elevating stress made it apparent this was not going to work out in the long term.
I spend some time figuring out what I was going to do next. Electronics and software was becoming long in the tooth so to speak after 27 years of doing it for a living. What next?? First I decided I should figure out what my Myers Briggs personality was and discovered I was ENFP. This was much more helpful than I thought it would be at the outset. It allowed me to stop trying to fix things I had seen as flaws over the years and to work with them, to work round other weaknesses, see my strengths and to accept things as they were. As with most strengths and weaknesses, they are alternate sides of the same thing and I wa able to them into much better perspective. I could also see threads of ENFPness running back to my childhood, times through which I had been much more intraverted, and, well, different. I could see how those threads had contributed to shape who I was,
This gave a me a better grounding for what to think about doing next. However, I did also decide that if I was going to stay in engineering, it had to be in audio and music, my passion since my childhood and the very thing that had got me into electronics and software to start with. I also decided I wanted to do some part time teaching and/or tuition work and also do more life coaching which I was already doing ad-hoc - there is nothing sweeter than watching someone blossom. I also want to do some inspirational speaking.
Well, the very next day I got an electronic knock of sorts from a DSP company, and long story short, I now work in audio and music. Being a small company, as well as engineering, I get to do product management, sales, marketing etc within the music market.
Next year is starting busy - CES in Vegas, NAMM in Anaheim then off to the head office in Canon Falls, just outside Minneapolis all inside two months.
On a personal level I have lost of a lot of weight and regained some figure. The loss will continue. I feel so much healthier, more energised and so much better about myself to boot.
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