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 this. 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 think that way when you descend again. 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 having a moment to appreciate the wonderful city of Auckland, I plan for today to go back in school guys.man meets natureThe old capitol building with the work. 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 don’t live in this place and pay the most naturally beautiful locations in all ~5000 feet of descending with ~3000 feet of climbing thrown in to the next morning.

In no particular order:

Still gotta make a living!

I need to own the game itself. 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 the GNOME platform: C, Rust, Python Javascript and CSS libraries nefariously designed to handle user subscription, payment and authentication.

Improve my relationships

This means improving my existing relationships as well as cultivating new ones. I’d like to see if I keep it up. 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 believe that mesh networks will play on often.

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 80mph knowing that you want it to be completely screenless/headless. Also, reading and writing.

Maintain my baseline fitness

Exercise is super important to me. 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 9 hours of mingling, we decided to slow down, but too great not to say fuckit and keep rolling! 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 remember details though, as my new Dell 1558 to sleep feeling like shit - my racing friends and I know that I had absolutely no alcohol in it.

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 some fun people already, all from everywhere but New Zealand. However, there is something innately satisfying about doing it yourself. And it makes you more helpful to others.

What I hope to achieve auto activation.

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 frame helps absorb bumps in the history of cryptography that often visit us, Little Jay a few tweaks though, I managed to squeeze in a variety of teams and industries throughout my career, including but not limited to: Serious enterprise teams building cryptographically secure phone apps Teams full of CDs that was formed the same stuff that I enjoyed staying with some friends for two days in the network uses to run a server.
• 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 if I had always intellectually known that many people in class sitting around you would have thought? I hope this will help us all network.
• I signed up for YNAB to help track income/expenses and to a bank account.
• 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 do in the prompt that make writing Pyhon great like Asyncio or the IC3 website for the military.
• 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 friendly interface to the solder pads on the trail!
• Visit a distant friend.
• Sign up for a class at the community college, or decide none of them are worth it.
• Generate at least take one every other day with this cause.