Introduction

[Almaviva]

Hi!

A whole forum of people like me, which is to say that most probably feel completely unlike anyone else in whatever group they happen to be involved with.

Whenever I take the MBTI, I experiment and try to look at the questions a little differently and often think "hmm, there's an answer I haven't chosen before", but no matter what I always come out INTP. I guess I'm just that far gone, heh.

I'm a programmer, 28, and I'm interested in RPGs, working out, music, and I'd like to be more interested in game programming. (Interested in the sense of actually being motivated to sit down and grind out code.) I've been cast in a leading role in a community opera production. I used to be heavily involved with a couple of shyness-support related groups, but I've utterly outgrown that.

Sticking with things has always been a challenge for me, but I'm going to try giving this forum a shot.

[int]

Hopefully as your mind wanders, ours will too, and collectively we'll keep each other entertained and coming back for more.

Welcome. :)

[file cabinet]

ooo, programming
what language(s) do you work with?
what are you doing with your life?
what do you want to do with your life?

[Almaviva]

"Hopefully as your mind wanders, ours will too, and collectively we'll keep each other entertained and coming back for more. "

Thanks for the welcome! I like the idea of ideas just drifting around, with more emphasis on the ideas themselves than with things like judging and fitting in.

file cabinet:

In my job, I'm working with Java and SQL doing financial software, mostly. Most of what I've done in the past has been C, except for way back in high school and earlier when I was into Pascal and Basic.

I used to be very happily in a state of having no long term plans. For the first time, I'm really feeling a push that I should be doing something substantial with my life, and not just in a "feely" sort of way but in a way that won't be satisfied except by actually doing concrete steps.

The trouble is that I am a terrible self-motivator and procrastinator. I took a year off from working once to work on a game, and I never got much accomplished at all (although it was great fun, lol.)

I've been focusing on music and singing lately as my main outlet for creativity. This feels more like a temporary diversion though than something that really is going to hold me. I know "trying to find myself" is such a cliche, but you know, there you have it..

[EternalCynic]

..You're going to fit riiight in.

I second what int said.
Welcome :)

[flan2dave]

Creative interests are tough to find, I've been searching for some time and still don't have anything that really grabs me. The best I can do is find a lot of books to read...with little spurts of inspiration occuring seldomly. More usual is the excitement that comes from the prospect of learning about something interesting, but reading and learning is not creative unless it motivates me to take things further.

[cloakable]

..You're going to fit riiight in.

*agrees with EternalCynic*

Ohh.. C. I'm going to learn that, in my college course. I tried teaching myself C++, but that was a nightmare. Basic is good fun though.

[Melody]

>_> C, C++, Java, C#... them all like the same thing.

[Avengardh]

Singing eh? I was almost convinced by one of my best friends to join the choir at my HS, but you know, Drawing class drew me in more :]

C++ is really really powerful...but right now I am learning JS, I guess I should be happy, but what I really want to do is web/graphic design. One of my crappy examples are the banners on the top of this site, people seem to like the Chunkstyle one though :D

I have the same problem and I know I will have it later on, the whole "trying to find yourself"-thing. I want to direct plays, for some strange reason...but my major is Computer Science, I want to do the other as a hobby ^^. Welcome btw.

~*Aven*~

[SensEye]

I have the same problem and I know I will have it later on, the whole "trying to find yourself"-thing. I want to direct plays, for some strange reason...but my major is Computer Science, I want to do the other as a hobby

Good plan Aven. Comp Sci has a much better likelyhood of paying your bills.

One thing almost everybody "finds about themselves" is they don't like living in poverty ;)

[Melody]

according to some guy, you are already complete

you just don't know it

like the wizard of oz

what that guy ask for? hes like hey man, i wanna be brave

then the wizard's all like, you dolt, ur already brave; but here is a shitty something of courage for u

then some other guys like, hey man, i wanna real heart or somethnig

then the wizards all like, you dickweed, u already have one, but here is a shitty one that represents one lol

then some other guys like hey man, i want something or other

the wizard says u already got it but heres something to display

then the dorothys like i wanna be home

then the wizards like ur already home 'n all u gotta do is tap ur heals 3x and say somethng or other


'the road, not the destination'