What makes me me? After much soul searching I came up with the following…
Square peg. Everywhere I go. Eternally. Abnormal.
A systems thinker. This means I look for opportunities at the deepest level possible, instead of focussing on the apparent symptoms.
A free agent who speaks his mind rather irreverently, although genuinely.
A friend and mentor who loves working with individuals to define and reach their goals. I know how easy it is to lose a decade or two.
An adventurer known to take a leap of faith or two.
A multidisciplinary creative.
Failures:
I’ve always found it hard to get moving, unless I get hooked into a great creative beat or idea. This has been my strength, but also weakness which led to give up too often.
OK, there are no failures. This is a fact. But when you string enough of them together without any successes it sure feels like it.
Spent a few years learning music production but didn’t keep it up.
Invented a vegan cheese cheese and produced it for national retail and food service. Could not scale up and ended up giving it to my ex wife as a parting gift.
Ran a freelance web and design business for small/micro businesses. Could not scale up or transition into brand strategy.
Completed a design degree at university but couldn’t land a job – my path was too weird?
Landed a freelance gig with a hot design firm but didn’t get called back – no explanation.
Landed and worked web design and digital media role at small b2b IT company but was very frustrated and more or less fired myself.
Ended up in retail where i constantly feel like a fraud.
I’m still writing my story. After all, we have no course other than to try our best with the cards we’re dealt.
Other things to note…
I become nauseous in competitive scenarios. In fact usually you simply won’t find me in a competitive scenario because everyone tricked into competing has lost.
I’m vegan going on 20 years. Bring it up with me, I dare you.
My age determined that I should prefer late 90s music, but I tend to get on better with nowave grunge. In any case I don’t think we are improving on the 90s.
