I\u2019ve at least got the glimmerings of hope that the New Year may not be as hard as this outgoing year has been. There\u2019s not necessarily anything earth shattering that\u2019s happened over the last week to make me feel this way that I can pinpoint. Christmas was uneventful, but not unpleasant, and that\u2019s about the best I hope for Christmas. Not being a Christian, it\u2019s a day that only has meaning by the fact it\u2019s the one day of the year I\u2019m guaranteed to spend time with my family at my home.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no immediate signs of any work of a regular sort at the moment, it\u2019s certainly the worst time of year to hope for that sort of change. However surprisingly there are a few jobs that I can and should realistically apply for and shall. There\u2019s not much point in saying anymore on either of those at this stage since the last 12 months has really been a bit of a \u201cnon event\u201d as far as such expectations go. If something more than a \u201cthanks but no thanks\u201d eventuates, I\u2019ll be willing to say more on that aspect of my life. What\u2019s more of interest immediately to me is the new found enthusiasm I seem to have found for life and facing the days.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always<\/em> stated that \u201cI\u2019m not a Coder\u2019s Arsehole\u201d which is really my way of saying that I\u2019ve not considered myself interested in Programming. The reality was that while I didn\u2019t start a B. Comp. to learn to code, initially I did find it interesting and at least for the first few units managed HD\u2019s. But as life\u2019s pressures mounted and I found myself working a full time week and balancing full-time university my interest in Programming drastically evaporated. I was really far more interested in other aspects of I.T. and didn\u2019t really anticipate working in that area of Computing. Programming had not really been in my skill set prior to University, and it seemed to me that those that were great at code already knew how to code before they hit University. That said, Fifteen years later, I find myself with a renewed interest in Programming not sullied by the Lack Lustre opinion of what a Degree (or two) is worth in the real world now.<\/p>\n A couple of seemingly unrelated and small conversations and some unexpected circumstances have caused me to re-evaluate my attitude and my \u201cwillingness\u201d to apply myself to programming. It\u2019s just possible that I might be able to generate some income by raising my skill set back up in this area. I have the time, oodles of time at the moment.<\/p>\n There\u2019s pressure for work, but NOT really any pressure to do programming just to get an assignment done. I\u2019m exploring it in the way I\u2019ve explored anything that\u2019s interested my in the past, and usually that means with great gusto! It\u2019s probably more a surprise to myself than anyone else that I am actually enjoying re-teaching myself to code. Admittedly, technically at the moment I wouldn\u2019t call it true programming as I\u2019m starting with HTML 5 & CSS(3). However I\u2019ve drafted out a rough plan of seeing how I got with this for a month and if the interest is maintained and my skill level grows in the manner I\u2019m used to seeing when I apply myself to something with my natural enthusiasm for new knowledge, I shall try my hand at Programming for Apple OS & iOS and also revisit \u201cC\u201d Programming and Programming in C+(+). I have no great desire to throw myself into C# again, but it\u2019s not impossible.<\/p>\n It seems to me a good counterbalance to the Photography and may pull me in a bit of money creating Websites or maintaining them.So through no great effort on my part it seems that 2017 may be brighter and more colourful than I was imagining a week ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve at least got the glimmerings of hope that the New Year may not be as hard as this outgoing year has been. There\u2019s not necessarily anything earth shattering that\u2019s happened over the last week to make me feel this way that I can pinpoint. Christmas was uneventful, but not unpleasant, and that\u2019s about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3,24,22,26,9,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-general","category-goals","category-health","category-photography","category-tech","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}