Stepping Out Of My Comfort Zone

I know I put this blog on hiatus just a few days ago, but I need to get this off of my chest.

As some of you may or may not know, Rachel and I are moving back to Brisbane in approximately two weeks. We are moving back for a myriad of reasons, but chief amongst them is family. We are too far from family down here in Melbourne, and over the time we have spent here I have come to realise just how important family is to me. I have a baby niece who’s first year I will have missed the majority of.

With these changes in mind, I’m hoping to make a few more, and step outside my comfort zone. For my entire adult life, I’ve worked in an office, doing things that I mostly hated, because I wasn’t passionate about them. There are really two things that I am passionate about (other than my family) – helping people, and web design.

One of the few things I enjoy about my (very, very soon-to-be previous) job is helping people with a problem. It gives me tremendous satisfaction to be able to take a problem, analyse it, and solve it.

Other than that, I love making websites. I sit here at my Mac most nights, with Coda open, working on some form of web page or site, simply because I love it. And now, I want to do that for a living. So now, while I will apply for jobs that aren’t web design, I’m focussing on applying for jobs that are at the very least web design focussed. I want to get a foot in the door, learn even more than I have over the last few years, and be the best web designer I can be.

Wish me luck!