"Experience"

BEG: 9:25 PM

Over the past 1/2 year, I've experienced a tremendous amount - perhaps the greatest emotional rollercoaster of my life.  The excitement of concepting out project (of tremendous social value), not really getting interviews for the position that I am passionate about, and just getting older.  Haha!  One important learning lesson I've accumulated during this stretch has to do with a couple topics related to experience.

First, there is doing something for a very long time, honing your skills with a particular skill-set or competency, and second, there is the accumulation of different technologies and paradigms.  The commonality that excites me about both of these routes is when someone is either very passionate and/or open-minded about learning.  When it comes to #1, I get annoyed with the notion that someone has many years under their belt, yet they have not really learned much, or accelerate their content and knowledge base with that skill-set.  In some situations, someone with 2 years experience in boxing can potentially gain more knowledge and become better than someone with 20 years.  Then we're talking about a coefficient of learning, so-to-speak. And part of not really progressing or learning from your mistakes lies with being stuck or not wanting to break free from what one is used to.  But I digress...

To compare #1 and #2, it is seemingly becoming the case that #2 will take the lead exponentially.  Because, in this day in age, in order to adapt we simply need to move on and try new things.  Practically each industry that exists is going through rapid changes so much so that practically no one is safe in their respective role -- except developers...for now.  You may be great at Marketing, but you may have to get into IT, or even doing Finance.  You may be an operations manager for Logistics, but you may need to become a Visual Basic expert, and perhaps even learning to write complicated SQL queries for extracting data from a database -- multiple ones at that (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, etc.).

Anyway, just my random thought of the moment...

END:  9:41PM