IT Director, Photographer, Dad

Taking Inventory

Added on by joel spangler.

As are most people, I often find myself looking for ways to organize my life. In my head at least, organization is calm. In practice, this isn’t always true, and eventually you can find a balance, although who’s to say how long it will take to find that.

I have recently been trying to take a measure of everything I’m trying to do in my life, hobbies, goals, family, etc, and it seems every time I do this, I am surprised at the number of things I have going at any given time. As usual, you immediately realize that you don’t have nearly enough time to keep every ball in the air that you intend to. So, for the first time, I am going to attempt to list everything I’m working on, interested in working on, or abandoned, and try to find creative ways to put time into them, or cut them out. These may be personal or professional in nature, but in either case they are things I am working on now, have in the past, or would like to. I’m going to separate them into current, future, and past as well.

Current

  • Learn how to properly code. In Python to start. Objective C, C#, Swift, and Ruby to follow

  • Develop an iOS App

  • Build out a VMWare Homelab and become fully fluent in Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu)

  • Finish my MCSA, and MCSE certs

  • Create and Publish a Podcast on a weekly basis (It’s called “No, Seriously” - more on this coming)

  • Spend more time playing music (How and what instruments to be determined)

  • Play Disc Golf at least once a week.

Future

  • VCP Certification

  • AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

  • Become fully fluent in SQL query languages and Database administration. (no more enough to be dangerous)

  • Begin a regular workout program of some sort. (Hoping this moves to current soon.)

  • Learn how to cook some new things. (wood fired pizza?)

Past

  • This list is in development. I will likely add things as I remember them.

I hope to keep up with this, and maybe post updates and findings on this process over time.