I sketch
After reading the article I linked yesterday, I put some more thought into my programming habits. How do I fit into the model of the Computer Science field presented? I’m definately not the Scientist/Mathematician. It’s too impractical. I suppose being an Enginere would be my ‘day job.’ It’s not something that I find very exciting but I get to work with something I enjoy and it pays the bills.
So that leaves the final choice, hacker/painter. I think this is a very good fit for me. I spend a lot of my time ’sketching.’ Most of my work at HHP was sketching. My site is a huge sketch pad with PHP as my pencil. I didn’t even realize how much I ’sketch’ until that article brought it to my attention. I looked down, today, at my clipboard of notes and scribblings for a better PHP blog engine and realized it bears a striking resemblence to the EJB architecture I’ve been reading about at work. In fact, my sudden itch to ‘make’ stuff started soon after I started reading all of these books for work. Hopefully I’ll be able to process enough through my sketching to actually do some work at work.
