Ideal Job

My dream job is difficult to pin-down with a detailed list of tasks or simple job description because I grow nored quite easily so ideally would appreciate a job that allows for that as well as my personality, which doesn't allow me to slowly, steadily chip away at a given task in a reliable manner but instead delivers concentrated mental focus and energy in cycles or waves: while awash in one of these waves I can get an extraordinary amount of work done and get it done with perfect enthusiasm, but when the wave is gone I step back, look and wonder whether what I'm doing is really a worthwhile way to be spending my time - paid work or not.

Given a $150,000/year salary to program front and backends from a $7,000 laptop with a massive battery that goes everywhere with me so I can work from cafes, national park lookouts, public libraries or anywhere else there's a flat surface to put the device on, that sounds about right to me though I also realize that not every project is going to appeal to me and in all likeliness most will be straight-up boring: there are plenty of boring people much better suited to being steady, reliable workers - I hate doing things I'm not invested in, personally, and would find a job like that very difficult to remain focused on.

Ultimately, my deam job will be a job developing the ideas that come to me while in that "zone" of enhanced mental focus, and then moving on to something new rather than slugging away like a worker ant on someone elses idea.

Anyway here is the kind of job I could groan my way through as a stepping stone to a position that pays me to come up with ideas then lets me go and do my own thing because life's too short to put in long hours not having as much fun as you could be having..

Here is the job I've selected, which I could do with exposure and experience in Redux, Native Redux and Node.js and I've included it because I liked their generally valuing high-quality design: Frontend Developer with Roam Creative

Skill Set

Having a somewhat obbsessive personality my skillset has become extremely diverse over the years: from cabinetmaking and french-polishing to supervision of other workers to this - web development and technology-related skills that automatically increase the more exposure I've had to various software and platforms over the last several decades.

In the interest of simplifying and truncating all these various work and life skills down to what is relevant to Information Technology however, I'll list only the skill-set that's pertinant to computers, programming and design since that's what we're all here for and my team-mates are waiting for this page to be finished so they can write-up the group-members skill activity.

Specific IT related software and technologies I'm experienced with include Photoshop, Eclipse IDE, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, Wordpress, 3D Studio MAX, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and their editing, Bootstrap and Sass, HTML, Server-side Scripting with Perl, PHP and a little Python, issuing server commands with a Command Line Interface (CLI) over SSH connection and there's many more things I can add as I think of them but that's all that's coming to me right now.

Beyond IT specific skills I've accumulated over a lifetime of general interest, in my personal life I've always been attracted to beauty and seem to have been born with a natural eye for beautiful things as well as an aptitude for visual design that's seen me pursue and explore visually creative hobbies like painting, drawing and carving wood throughout the years, so exploring and playing with beautiful designs in web-sites is just an extension of that.

Of course beautiful women are the most beautiful thing of all and though I've tried in the past to describe in words the indescrible value that beauty holds - from a male perspective - I've always failed.

Sure I know, I'm veering off track here a bit though it's still within the confines of the topic of "visual appeal" and deep-thought has always been a preoccupation of mine: the juxtaposition of contemporary social attitudes (namely that men are not permitted to even recognise women generally as attractive) with the reality of being a biological organism who has evolved over millions of years to find women more attractive than anything else for the purpose of successful reproduction and that biological mechanism works *so* well that every beautiful woman to me is like a walking work of art.. but that's got nothing to do with IT anymore huh?

Philosophy, I should've enrolled in that..

I'm pretty well-skilled in most things that interest me includiong IT and being in possession of a 136 IQ means learning new concepts is remarkably easy for me as long as the concept in question is interesting enough that I want to start learning it, natural intellectual curiosity will see me expand my knowledge through self-education anyway so I am a super-fast learner.

Anyhow, that should be enough for whoever's doing the groups individual skill comparison to have something to work with, so I've gotta close this now and start a new organization plus repository on github so I can create the site skeleton, upload it, mess around with it a bit and then send out invites to the other five members of our group to begin getting their feedback.

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