Wow, how hard is that! Getting back to work after quite a while. Things like setting up a Debian virtual guest seem to be tricky. No step can be made without a google search. And why am I not cheetah fast on my vim? Ups... the client is waiting, so at least there is a whip.
I stepped out of programming in Ruby when the version was... OMG! I've completely lost the track on software versions and it was just a year and a half. So I read magic like: The current stable version is 2.1.0. I remember a talk by (wait, what was his name), right, Matz! Yes, in 2011 in Berlin, he said something about Ruby 2.0. I've left around 1.9.4 I guess. Rails was before version 4. Jesus.
My market value went from 50k €/year to 6k (in programming field). I've changed, OK. Let it be. But still, I'm a third engineer in line after my grandfather and dad. So I'll fight for the family name as if it was a Game of Thrones season five.
I've travelled and I ended up meeting people from Jiva Institute. Ou, I remember – I stepped out of programming to become a human system engineer (gems, magic, reiki...) and now I go to India to work as a software team lead/brainstormer on Ayurvedic ideas. At the end, not everything got vanished, I've just lost the sense of a productive software developer. Well, the internal journey had to happen and it has a price. And value.
It's not that bad. I've looked through my past posts and different blogs I've managed. They surprised me and made me happy – there is nothing about myself. It's just work and interests. They are like a footprint that stands for – this guy was very curious about the world. That's good. Now it's just about time management and finishing tasks one by one.
In the meantime I wrote a book (releasing this year), I've sold everything and traveled with a backpack (which you can check at soldnpacked.com), I had a lot of fun and finished off gracefully like a brave Apache. Changing continents soon and posting on WIFI! Cheers from Peterborough, Cafe Nero.
