2012 - A New Challenge
In the end one grows tired of all the motivational texts that reach you through social media. You know the inspirational mantras that people like to spread while doing a daytime job they do not care much about. “Look yourself in the mirror every day and wonder if this is what you really want to do”. “Fail, fail again, fail better”. “Your ideas are only worth so much, the real value is in the execution”. And so on.
Maybe it was all this cheap philosophy that got my head spinning, but in the end of 2011 I took a risk. I did not prolong my contract at NiXPS and decided to spend time on personal projects. There are projects that I want to realize and that I can not combine with a full time contract. Some of them I will concentrate on in 2012.
NiXPS will thrive without me, I am sure. It has been a good five years there, and we built something that will prosper. Nick is a good manager and remains a good friend and I will miss his daily presence in my life. But I want to concentrate on other things for a while now.
There is only so much I can do with the money I saved. I will try to economize on my spendings and will maybe search for external funding, even though I am weary of the idea. In the end I will tie the knots together with consulting jobs, doing iOS development or other programming that makes me enough money to live of. It will be an adventure, that’s for sure.
Whatever will happen in 2012, it will sure be an interesting year. Happy New Year!
