Embracing my inner geek

March 4, 2009 · by Paul Eggerling-Boeck

Or rather, my inner programmer.

I make the distinction because, aside from a complete lack of social skills, I can’t really lay claim to any of the other attributes that make a geek a geek. I’m not a gamer, trekker, or Star Wars fanboy. I don’t read/watch sci-fi or fantasy (with the exception of LOTR, duh), and I have never taken up residence in my parents’ basement. However, I do loves me some coding. I have always gotten a lot of satisfaction out of solving problems by writing computer programs. Now, if I could only write one that gets my 2 yr old to sleep better, I’d be ecstatic, not to mention rich.

Of late, I’d been trying to diversify my interests by playing guitar, reading, and one or two other things. After starting and stopping these activities and generally not being able to generate much interest in doing them, I realized that I just need to give up and accept the fact that what I really enjoy doing is programming. I think I’ll still plunk around on my guitar because I spent too much money on it to just drop it, but I’ve pretty much given up any ambition of becoming a musician. Not because I couldn’t, but because I just don’t want to. Now that I’m in my mid-thirties, I’m realizing that I need to be honest with myself and just enjoy the things that I enjoy and stop trying to be something I’m not. I think I’ll be happier in the end if I can do that successfully.

So I’m off to learn Spring, Maven, and RoR.

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