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August 15, 2006
I know what I am made to do, now what?
It's funny how life works sometimes. After my post about finding what you are made to do, I started reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
Now when I started reading it, I did't know what it was about. I picked it up because it was onsale at Borders and it looked good.
The book is about a shepard boy who deciedes to follow his Personal Legend. A Personal Legend is basically the path that you are made to follow, discovering what you were made to do.
The book is actaully a really quick read and motivated my to find the path of my Personal Legend.
In my last post, I talked about what I made to do; be a software engineer. So now that I figured that out, what's the next step? Well, I think it's determining whether or not I am currently following my Personal Legend. From the surface, it looks like I am on the right path as I my offical title is IT Application Engineer. In reality, I am not really doing any Engineering. I spend a lot of time analyizing issues and then passing the fix off to someone else. I really want to do is analysis the issue and fix the issue. It's really annoying to pass off an issue to someone else and know that I can do the work much better.
So where does that leave me? Well, if according to the book The Alchemist, I need to follow my Personal Legend, then I need to figure out how to get a job that allows me to program and not just be a paper pusher.
Posted by crumrine at August 15, 2006 10:31 PM
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