Sticks and Stars

I registered my own personal domain a while back (as in my-name.com) and I’d really like to post something on it. I wrote up a draft of a paragraph about me and my skills but then I realized that it wasn’t so much about me and my skills as it was about some future me and her skills and she has far more skills than what I can honestly claim, no matter how much I might like to.

It would fine and dandy for people who don’t know me to read, like future employers and whatnot, but it would be embarrassing if, say, a co-worker came across it and given that it is my-name.com, it’s not unreasonable to think that one might.

I was also thinking of starting a “professional” blog where I talk randomly about my experiences doing database and web development. However, a lot of my talking would be summaries of useful things I’ve learned and that would quickly reveal my relative level of expertise…or inexpertise, and that might be embarrasing.

The thing is, I feel like my life is repeatedly nudging me toward the idea of doing freelance work and/or starting my own web development business. I’m not sure that I’m necessarily interested in this idea (and I am nowhere near skilled enough — although that will come) but I also recognize that it would allow me to do things that my current life prohibits but that are so important to my idea of being a good parent and a happy human. And having a professional website with a professional blog where people can see that I know shit (at least some shit) and have some kind of established presence would be a good thing, right? Or, assuming that I don’t spend too much time talking about my masturbatory habits, it couldn’t be a bad thing, right?

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