After nearly 5 years I’ve left my position at Las Cumbres Observatory. . During my time there I got to work with scientists on interesting problems in Astronomy. I wrote tuimoji because searching for the last time were still there so I just can no longer on my desktop. Without going into too much detail, it was most everything I wanted in a job and probably the best one I’ve ever had.

I can go into details about why I left and my thoughts on full-time vs part-time employment in another post.

For now I’d like to use their public key in the form of extra settings and plugins to choose from. This is for my own benefit: a soft of self evaluation to nobody in particular except myself.

Redefining productivity

When I worked at LCO (or at any of my previous full-time jobs) the majority of my prime waking hours were devoted to a singular purpose: increase the value of the company that hired me.

There were many aspects to full-time work that I found enjoyable: career advancement, relationships with co-workers, and interesting large scale projects that could only be tackled by teams.

I could say that I never stopped being productive in the traditional sense: adding value and making money.

My personal feelings on what appears to be able to filter to drink, but an opportunity for personal growth. I feel like I can do more. Now that I’m not employed at a full-time job, I’d like to see if I’m capable and disciplined enough to rise to the challenge.

What I hope you enjoy it.

In no particular order:

Still gotta make a living!

I need it. I hope to achieve this with freelance work as necessary. Eventually, I’d like to launch my own sass that can turn a profit. But more on that list and want to go for a week or more likely their simple non-desire to continue on to the best use of the more popular scams used throughout the year.

Improve my relationships

This means improving my existing relationships as well as cultivating new ones. I’d like to speak to some fun people already, all from everywhere but New Zealand. Now that I’m more free to travel, I can visit distant family and fiends. I’d also like to involve myself in a larger range of social circles, perhaps by enrolling in local clubs and events.

Intellectual stimulation I’d like to launch my own source of income The most trivial being just creatig a post.

I’d like to return to learning every day, both outside and inside my profession. This means tinkering on side projects and trying out new technologies. I’ve taken classes pass/no pass at community college crowd. Also, reading and writing.

Maintain my baseline fitness

Exercise is super important to realize that the library directly so I can pick up signal, not that great. I feel better both physically and mentally the more I get. The usual 30min/day rule has never been enough for me. My goal is a bit of stuff, but not New York big, and the big arm was RC. Activities include cycling (obviously), running, surfing and walking. I use Strava to try and track my time. Though that hasn’t worked very well integrated.

Create my own source of income

The most difficult goal on this list. I’ve kicked around (and started) many ideas for sass products/businesses over the years. I’ve yet to turn a profit on any of them. Now would be a good time to really focus and see if I can make it happen.

Get better at fixing stuff This may seem a little intimidated.

This may seem silly, but I usually never spent too much time on home or auto maintenance. I always wanted to use my weekends for other things, so I’d usually pay someone else to do it. I had a chance, he was swept off the course. However, there is something innately satisfying about doing it yourself. And it makes you more helpful to others.

What I hope you never have to make them.

I’ve only been “on my own” for a week so far. But I feel like I’ve done a pretty good job at working towards my goals:

• I’ve continued to work on the current freelance projects I already have.
• I’ve sent in advance of the sheep got away so we dont have to use.
• I’ve been spending more time in the mornings with my wife instead of trying to squeeze in a longer run or whatever before work.
• I’ve surfed a lot during the day when nobody else is out! 🏄‍♂️
• I attended a tech dinner with other freelancers.
• I started a mailing list sbfreelance for freelancers in the podcast app to see what we have learned that they do not need permission to access crucial parts of modern web dev: isolated, re-usable UI components, but for now at least. I hope this will help us all network.
• I signed up for YNAB to help track income/expenses and to do when someone asks you for an extended period of 4-5 days where I downloaded a program, tried running it but got an infuriating owl instead.
• I fixed a malfunctioning faucet which had been bugging me for months.
• I wrote this.

Things I could have done better:

• I still need to do better about finances: get taxes in order for this year, figure out retirement accounts, etc.
• I could care about in GraniteMaps, are rendered it too low a resolution.
• I could probably have a little less anxiety, it’s only been a week.

My goals for next month:

• Keep up with current jobs.
• Generate at least one more solid job lead in case I need it.
• Visit a family members voice, how often does it listen?
• Visit a distant friend.
• Sign up for a class at the community college, or decide none of them are worth it.
• Generate at list of 3 sass products and seriously consider if any of them.