Recently I decided to quit my job, so I could have time to do all of those things I always wanted to do. It's been just one week since I started enjoying my freedom, and I already feel like a new person. I started doing exercise and cooking more. I explored my own neighborhood and stepped into many great undiscovered places. I had time to catch up with a few long lost friends and also to read a bit every day. Also started to sleep more and I am finally feeling well rested. I feel more energetic and happy in general, and this makes me be inspired to start learning and doing other things, being productive.
Looking further back in time, I also used to be a Computer Science student passionate about Computer Graphics. At university I took every subject I could that was related to the field, and I was offered a position to work at BarcelonaVirtual Reality Center. This was my first contact with VR and I found it incredibly interesting. After a few months I had to quit to go on Erasmus and work on my master thesis, but the experience there gave me new ideas for what I wanted to do next. Already abroad I was lucky to find another VR lab and a professor that accepted to be my supervisor. He had some very interesting proposals for a master thesis, and I ended up creating a virtual museum all by myself. I loved it because it had everything that I like: creativity, programming and history. It was a project in which I could bring together my technical and my artistic profiles. I enjoyed doing that a lot, so going back to the present, why not turn something like that into my job?
The last couple of days I have been setting up an office at home. My goal now is to learn everything I need to work in the creation of virtual museums, starting with 3D modelling. Risky as it is, I want to give it a try. Job positions in the field are narrow and there is also a possibility that I won't like it as much as I think now. But I would hate to not even try and growing old with that annoying "what if...?" question always in my mind. Moreover, even if my mission would not be successful, I believe that everything we learn is somehow useful. Besides being a great self-learning experience, there are other fields I like where I could use my newly acquired skills, such as game development or the film industry. So it's a win-win... Or that's what I tell myself :-)
So here I am writing my first post on my first blog ever. This has just been a small introduction about myself for you to understand my background and motivations, but the idea is for this blog to become more technical than personal. My purpose is to keep track of everything I'm doing to achieve my goal, for several reasons:
- To centralize all the knowledge in one place and go back to my notes whenever I need to refresh my memory
- To serve as a resource to help others who are also trying to learn
- To boost my motivation by exposing progress
- To remind myself why I'm doing what I'm doing, when critical times come
