I’ve always liked photography, but I rarely carry my camera around as often as I should, to take fantastic photos.
So I’m moving. This is certainly an interesting experience. In preparation for my move, I decided to move back in with my parents, to let them have as much time with me as possible while I’m still living in the same state as them.
The next year will certainly be an adventure. I will be living away from my parents for the first time since college. I will have my own money, I will have to deal with my own expenses, I will have to figure out lots of things on my own. I will be living in a city I’ve never visited before, I will be playing tourist for the first few weeks. I will be dipping into my savings for hopefully not too long.
This, all in the face of a recession!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: pick-up is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. If not for pick-up, I would have never had the balls to go off across the country to live on my own, to finally fulfill my dream of traveling to different cities, living in each one for a little bit, radically changing my environment.
It’s also nice being a hacker. I can do my “work” anywhere I have an internet connection.
I guess the conditions are pretty nice for me to make this move. I’ve saved up money, I’ve got no loans, I’ve got no mortgage, significant other, kids, or pets to tie me down. But I like to think that while it was easier for me to do, relative to those with loans, kids, et cetera, the most important factor is that I went for it.
Go for it. That’s the difference between those who do crazy things and live it up, and those who start sentences with, “I should have…”
Okay so I’ve been preparing to move the past few months, not doing much approaches. On the other hand, I’ve cleaned up my finances a lot, taken care of a lot of loose ends, and worked on my identity a bit.
I left my job sometime before Christmas in preparation for the move; since I had a ton of free time and I didn’t want to spend money snowboarding, I took the instructor training course at a ski resort 2.5 hours away from me.
So now I’m a snowboarding instructor.
It’s pretty cool. I really enjoy teaching people and trying to figure out what their biggest weakness is and how I can help them overcome it. Kind of applying the information timing thing to snowboarding instruction.
Also I now have a season pass! So I can snowboard for free, as long as I get to the mountain. The instructor training course helped my snowboarding a lot as well, I can now tackle much harder trails than I had been able to prior. I tell my students something similar to Blow Me or Blow Me Out: if you’re not falling a little bit, you’re probably not trying new things, which means you’re not improving. It’s Wipe Me or Wipe Me Out! Okay, maybe not…
Anyway that’s the update on my identity.