September 05, 2004
Me
I'm working on a new web home for myself, and while hacking on the CSS, I wrote a first draft of what I wanted to say on my new home page:
My self-awareness and reason for existence rotate around a couple of things:
- I'm a Belgian guy born in 1970,
- I'm happily married with someone I dearly love since 1988,
- I'm the proud dad of three healthy kids, two boys and one girl,
- I work in IT, more specifically:
- I run my own company with a friend,
- which is about Open Source Java and XML, topics I'm quite passionate about,
- but my main hobby is photography. Nothing fancy, though - I'm still learning.
- I despise so-called corporate culture although I've been indulged in it in past times,
- I'm a democrat with demonstrated left-wing tendencies,
- I used to be a practicing Catholic, but the world should really be a better place if He actually existed,
- I have a keen interest in people but am not really a people's person. Don't think of me as a loner, though. I'm just picky about the folks I really commit to, and can appear dispassionate about others. I do like people, but sometimes only in an observative mode.
- I tend to be cool in stress situations, more specifically medical urgencies. If I would be able and willing to start again, there's a good chance I would be doing something in healthcare.
- But emotionally, I can be touched very easily, by simple thoughts and things.
- There have been times when I was sure I was so right about everything,
- but now I realize that we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously.
- I have a serious issue with authority.
- Although I can be grunting all day long, I tend to be a joyous person.
- I do not think of myself as being a single thing better than somebody else.
- Quite the contrary: I can be in dire need of appreciation by others.
- I think a lot, about all sorts of things. Not all deep thoughts, though.
- I can be pretty silent when doing all that thinking.
- I love languages, books, and print media in general. Words, sentences, paragraphs: the transcription of thought trains and story flows - yummy.
- I'm not a maths person.
- Lots of my behaviour is based on feeling rather than fact.
- I like music a lot, but don't have a good memory for performers and lyrics.
- I like cooking. I do cook a good deal of the family meals, including but not only the weekends.
- I'm not so keen on house-cleaning. I can be messy. I'm not very structured as well.
- I've tried to do a lot of things, too many, and I have a pretty high failure rate in terms of actual endurance. This was frustrating at times, but now I've come to accept my varying and changing interests and skills. It's the thing people sometimes like me for as well: I'm a generalist rather than a specialist.
- I don't think of myself as a smart person. While I know I'm pretty clever, I'm lazy as well.
- I believe the world wouldn't be a better place if only smart people get the lead.
- I spend money rather than save it. I know I could do better.
This is one of these posts which, after you re-read them, make you think that people will feel awkward when seeing them. Oh, well.
Comments
Holy Crap! With a couple minor differences, you just described me! I wonder how common these traits are among those of us in our trade.
Posted by: Lance Lavandowska at September 5, 2004 05:04 AM
right! just right! i smiled reading this thought
love you, my big brother.
Posted by: bart at September 9, 2004 08:21 PM
Het doet me een plezier te lezen dat we nu een aanspreekpunt hebben voor medische urgenties op het IIC ;-)
Posted by: Danny at September 20, 2004 10:08 PM