Been all over the place lately. Learning lots. Have done a lot of UI / UX reading and have been truly inspired to think of every interaction as an EXPERIENCE. Spending time in Florida observing my 90 year old grandmother interact with my iPhone or explaining Twitter to her was a humbling moment of understanding what usable technology really means.

I’m trying to decide which way to go, I have a large back pocket filled with expertise at front-end web work, but I’ve also really enjoying the Rich Internet Application work I’ve been doing, mostly with the Air Framework. I’ve also been playing around with iPhone dev and some cool visualization stuff in my spare time.

I’ve had a couple of amazing mentors these past few months and have learned a ton about the process of defining a problem and how to go about solving it, from an architecture as well as user interaction point of view. But I’m not sure where I’m going next. I’ve been annoyed by some of the feedback I’ve received from recruiters who have told me to “re-imagine my resume to fit the major qualities of the job description” I’ve also gotten the bait and switch. I’ve found most don’t know what they’re looking for and don’t seem to care, although there are several recruiters I’ve worked with in my life who are both genuine people and care about finding the right fit.

I’ve also gotten some skeptical questions as to people questioning my decision and commitment to wanting to come on with them full-time. I learned an incredible amount in the past year of freelancing – clearly identified my strengths and weaknesses as a programmer, communicator, facilitator, teammate and employee. I think I’d be equally suited to do AS3 / Flex work as I would to do Rails dev, PHP dev, User Interaction Design or teach Math.

The fact of the matter is I’ve had the time to explore, learn to manage clients, learn to solve technical challenges and now I want to work with a team with vision, that is trying to do great things and who I can challenge as well. And if I can bike to your office in downtown Columbus, even better.

Anyway, just throwing that out there.

As an aside – every time I tell somebody that I moved to Columbus from New York, the first question I get is “city?” the second is “why?” and the third is “how long do you plan on staying?” Well I’m here, I own a home and love it. So stop asking.

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