Careers

August is on the horizon and while I have been very busy with a full queue of posts jostling for front of the line at times -- I suspect there will be some slow days ahead.  And I am feeling both nostalgic, philosophical.  Hence I am typing.   

With plenty of real life careers in my resume (retailer, teacher, home remodeler, artist, multimedia designer etc) I had not reached a long time desire to be A. video game creator and B. advertising company.   I touched on those thing along the way but just barely. 

And then Second Life came along.  

I could be creative and not add to my closet of work stored away for posterity.  I could help other creators by showing off THEIR work and enjoy taking pictures and editing. And then when mesh came along and Windlight I could enhance those skills and enjoy myself in new ways.  

So in some senses I AM a game creator AND and advertising mogul LOL. 

 

It all works.  

Later addition:

I wrote this a few days ago and left it in draft mode for a time when I needed a post.  

And then the world caught up with me.  Several synchronistic happenings occurred within a very short time period. I have learned over the years that it is REALLY best to pay attention when the Universe is pushing you in a direction.

The short story is I am closing my store and taking down my demos. The Marketplace decided to unlist and unassociate a LOT of my items.  That made me mad at first and then I decided I didn't really care all that much.  I did the math on what I was currently making and the money wasn't worth the effort.  So by now I will have abandoned all my land. My only sadness was giving up my snow plot but who know what I will be doing in November. 

On the plus side -- at the same time some more positive things occurred and I rented a homestead and I am starting a new project (nothing to do with retail).  I don't really have great expectations about how this will work out but it will keep me busy for awhile and make a couple of folks happy. So that's the news.  

I will still keep blogging but expect a few blasts from the past posts along they way as finding things to report on when much of he glob is on vacation is fairly daunting.