Mid-career Pivots: Changing Direction at 30 Without Starting From Scratch
I remember sitting in my first real office job, staring at a spreadsheet that felt like it was draining the literal life out of my eyes, while a "career coach"…
I remember sitting in my first real office job, staring at a spreadsheet that felt like it was draining the literal life out of my eyes, while a "career coach"…
I was hunched over a disassembled Moog synthesizer last Tuesday, squinting at a circuit board under a dim lamp, when the mid-afternoon crash hit me like a physical weight. My…
I was sitting at my workbench last weekend, surrounded by the smell of solder and old capacitors from a 1970s Moog I was trying to bring back to life, when…
I was sitting in a glass-walled conference room last Tuesday, watching a project manager flip through his forty-second slide of a deck, when I realized we weren't actually working—we were…
I was hunched over a vintage Roland Juno last Tuesday, trying to trace a faulty signal through a mess of oxidized solder joints, when my brain just... snapped. I couldn't…
I was sitting at my workbench last weekend, surrounded by the smell of solder and old capacitors, trying to bring a 1970s Moog back to life. It hit me then:…
I was elbow-deep in the guts of a 1970s Moog synthesizer last Tuesday when my client’s laptop died mid-project, leaving us both staring at a black screen and a useless…
I was hunched over my workbench last Tuesday, trying to move a handful of high-res audio samples from my laptop to an old analog synth controller, when I realized I…
I was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, staring at a pile of expensive sterling silver wire and a set of pliers that cost more than my first car, wondering…
I remember standing in my garage three years ago, staring at a perfectly good vintage metal lamp that looked like it had been dragged through a coal mine. I’d spent…