A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

Haven’t been shoppin’ but I sure as hell haven’t been around here, as you’ve noticed.

I’m really up against the wall on this grand experiment of mine.  My success is getting to be pretty consistent.  But when push comes to shove I’m not “making my numbers.”  It’s a horrible curse, and I may yet be able to pull this off.  But it would be “pulling this off.”

It’s hard being scared when you go to sleep; worrying about money, worrying about your performance, realizing that the only obstacle is your ability to get out of your own way and do the things you know are right.  Add to that the knowledge that there’s something else you love doing but if seemingly the only way you can do it is if you have to sell a bit of your soul.

If I didn’t hate financial IT so much this wouldn’t even be a discussion.  But I’m near pathological about it now.

The big problem at this point (here comes the justification… wait for it… waaaaiiit….) is that my resume looks less focused than a pollack painting.  I’ve been doing programming work I can’t stand for so long that it’s really crippled my marketing power due to a bad case of ADD job hopper syndrome.

A friend of mine is a recruiter and she just shakes her head in disbelief at my resume.  “Mike, you’re great once you get in front of them.  But how the hell do you expect me to get you in front of them?”  Which is true.  I interview pretty well.  I tech out moderately well for my skill set.  But the recruiter’s got a bitch of a sales job.

Of course when I say “no financial” she damn near hangs up on me.

Yeah so that’s that about all that.

I can’t even describe to you how unbelievably frustrating it is to finally see success coming and realize it might just be too late.

As a trader and an internet junkie I can’t help but have come across stocktwits.  The amount of buzz about this thing has finally pushed me over the edge to start paying attention to my twitter account.  So I finally went and started “following” a few people who were following me, kicked the tires on actually “twitting” from my phone, uploaded a pic (a good inebriated one) and all that there.

So if you’re one of those types of people I’m on twitter as, you guessed it, madwilliamflint (yeah yeah, I know what I said.  mpwilson wasn’t exactly available.)

I can’t begin to imagine what I’m going to twit about (tweet?  god this is worse than the fucking coffee jokes for java.)

I’ll probably need some bizarre blog integration thingie… but in which direction I’ve no idea.

V. Kate had something that seemed to update her facebook status with twitter things but that could’ve been my imagination… so much is lately.

I’ve also been pointed at a really stellar piece of software (how often do you hear me say THAT?) called TweetDeck that’s an adobe air application (frankly I don’t even know wtf that means.  I’m so damn behind.)  It helps you follow and group and filter your twitter subscriptions, so you can maintain a nice console with group updates, etc.  It’s very much the kind of thing I’ve fantasized about writing for rss feeds; sort of a recombinator and filtering. (Frankly because boing boing’s political ramblings make me want to puke.  But their tech stuff is fine.  Nix Cory, gimme Xeni… that sort of thing.)

But if you’re a twitter person, check out TweetDeck.  It’s free as in beer and runs on either platform worth mentioning (take THAT.)

And as always, if you have any recommendations, gimme a holla, yo.

On another note…

eh, that’s another post.