A year of fire
It feels as if the time I spent in Canada was a transitional phase, the “hector before” and “hector now” breaking point. While I was up there I learned a lot and had a good experiences, yet coming back to Mexico was like being thrown a bucket of cold water in the face. I do like it here, nothing wrong with Mexico, its just that back here meant something quite interesting: growing.
Over the years I’ve build good skills in what I do, and I’ve managed to always have good work and keep doing interesting things (crossing my fingers things stay like that). Still, before Canada I was living with my parents and even though I was working and all, things didn’t feel so serious. And while in Canada I was again into the University vibe, cool friends, international parties and, again, that didn’t feel so serious. Back in Mexico though, I was all of a sudden the Chair of a department with strong responsibilities in a job that forced me to wear a tie, I had moved in with my girlfriend (who left her life in France just to be with me), and starting having debt and all those crazy grown up things. Yes, bucket of cold water in the face.
Then I realized I didn’t like the suit wearing job at all, it was not meant for me, and I kept getting interesting projects proposals due to my Flash portfolio and the contacts I had been doing over the years. Those projects grew and it meant getting together with good partners that would allow me to make things happen, and thats how Radical Golem grew. We’ve been having very good projects over quite a while now, and I can see things only getting better for several reasons. Yet its interesting to manage projects and a company in the middle of a world wide crisis. So many questions. I feel like I’m learning a lot and this is only the beginning. The Hector by the end of 2009 will be a guy I already want to meet and ask him a couple of questions. he he he.
Sigh… I can only hope I make the right choices. Will Hector the developer survive?, or Hector the manager will finally overcome?, what do the projects require?… O__o
Ouch Hector! Pues tienes mucha razon, yo me pregunto también lo mismo y me dan muchas ganas de conocer a la Hilda del futuro y las cosas que me contara… Por otro lado, el feeling de “madurez” no me ha llegado y no sé cuando es que puede llegar. Pero como quiera que sea, eso de debatirnos entre dos campos que uno es la tecnologia (lo necesario) y el arte (lo bonito y placentero) es la ruleta que le da vueltas a nuestra camaleonica personalidad y en mi la razon de mi “madurez” no sentida.
THE BEST FOR 2009!!!!
sunnier
March 4, 2009 at 12:47 pm