Yesterday I talked a little bit about software development, and internet marketing and how they relate to my goals. I want to elaborate on that a bit in this post.
Dreams vs the Need to Pay the Bills
I’ve always known I wanted to be a programmer and I’ve always loved games so putting those two together gives me game programmer. When I went to university, I decided to focus my studies towards game development but along the way I began to realise that the reality of the games industry did not fit in with what I wanted. The pay is very low, the hours are very long, there is a lot of maths involved, and the majority of development jobs are based on consoles, and my passion is PC games, MMO’s in particular. Read more... (778 words, estimated 3:07 mins reading time)
My overall goal is to make a living by developing software. In my absolutely ideal dream world, I would make that living by developing a cool MMORPG with millions of players and I’d be rich and famous! Ok back down to earth… !
The Problem with Software
My goals are somewhat hierarchical. I know what my ultimate goals are but there are steps that I need to achieve along the way. I cannot undertake a huge software project without having first built and completed some smaller ones. However, one of the big problems with software is that it requires a large investment of time & effort up front before there is even the slightest possibility of earning any money from it. Read more... (449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)
This post is basically a continuation from my last one where I talk about my background and how I have arrived at the point I find myself now.
The Entrepreneurial Spirit Stirs
The first six months of my job were great. I devoured programming books to get myself caught up with all I had missed in the years between 1998 and 2006. I also started exercising and eating cleanly and I lost a lot of the weight that I had piled in the previous few years. I began to make improvements in every aspect of my life. After about 6 months, things had settled down. I had fixed my career, I had fixed my weight issues, and I started to ask myself the questions “what’s next?”, “what else is there?” Read more... (807 words, estimated 3:14 mins reading time)
I hope you don’t mind if I take some time to explain a little bit about myself and my background. That way if I mention something in a future post about something I’ve done in the past you will know what I’m talking about. I want to try to explain how I’ve reached this point where I am quitting my job to step out on my own. Read more... (782 words, estimated 3:08 mins reading time)
My name is Caroline Middlebrook . I’m a 35 year old (as of August 2007) software developer living in the UK. But not for long, well not exactly. Let me explain… I currently work as a software developer in an ordinary 9-5 office job. Although I love writing software, I realise now that I do not want to do it on the context of a regular job. I want to explore my own ideas in software, create something new and useful – make my tiny little mark on the world. Read more... (317 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)
