I quit my job to study what I'm passionate about
I’m taking the last months of 2019 off to study functional programming, scala and category theory. I had my last day of work last week. So what now?
The day to day plan is:
- two and a half/three hours of study in the morning
- a mid day break with room for music and exercise
- two and a half/three hours of study in the afternoon
All dedicated to only doing things that I care about. Maybe after a few weeks I will find that I need to divert course, but for now the ambition is to focus on Scala as a primary language, with a side serving of Haskell and a sprinkling of F# as teaching aide. And a few palate cleansers of methodology texts that I’ve wanted to read.
But why?
As you can imagine, quitting my job with nothing else lined up was not an easy choice to make. On one hand, I had great coworkers I loved and a stable job that was providing a stable income, but on the other hand… well. I intend to write a longer blog post about this when I am less blog-shy (you’re reading my first blog… ever!), but in short, I want to take active control of the direction of my career, to steer it in a direction I think I will be happy with. That - for me - required taking some time out to explore what I am actually passionate about.
My biggest fear for this project is failing to my overcome my procrastination.