Whykay's happenings

My gap year coming up

And no, I am not a student. I've been working since I graduated in '99... yeah, yeah, a dot-com baby. Worked in 2 very different companies, one is your atypical American corporate company (Sun Microsystems) and my current one, which is a small-medium local Irish company.

I made jovial comments that I would NOT go back to college, for my fear of exams got the better of me. My venture into Open Uni course put the end of my appetite for college courses, yep, I had to do an exam at the end of it. *Pleurgh!

I know I loved workshop type courses, and from my years of working in the industry, it's definately the only way to learn.

So I chose to go to DCU to study MSc. Multimedia. My main reasons:
- No exams
- Picking up skills to improve my websites (I'm currently revamping one at the moment)
- Picking up the business end of things that will help to push my current IBC further.
- Venture into a more creative area of the industry, programming is just not my cup of tea, it's fun, but just not me.

So I have alot riding on this course. My career, my future, turning my hobbies to a realisation that it can reach more people out there. And hopefully the maintenance of the sites will pay themselves off at some stage.

But I thought many would have thought I was crazy, a minority were curious on why I was not moving up with regards to my career. Why don't I want to become a manager? But there are many that were a bit taken back on what I am about to embark on. I'm not the only one it seems, taking a year off seems to be getting populate according to this indo article.

And so many things happened in my life, and it takes something like my father passing away to wake me up to achieve more, challenge myself more. Life is too short. Each change is a milestone in my life, I am dedicating this "career break" of learning for my own progression in my career path to my father.

Posted by whykay at August 14, 2007 01:25 PM