I am a very passionate person. My main drive in life is following my passion. If it touches me the right way I am willing to spend a lot of time dedicated to make something happen. Lose sleep, food and maybe human interaction, but when you flip the coin it is totally opposite. If I have no interest in something I cannot force myself to focus.

After reading Rob Goodlatte’s (facebook project designer) post on passionless pre-professionals I was left speechless. I have not seen a post that explains the story of my life as clearly as this did. He clearly outlined how many of us go to school studying that thing that will give us more money but is not what we are really interested in. In my case I thought I was interested in something I was not and was chicken to admit it till much later, consoling myself with the incentives completing the particular major promises after graduating.

After moving to New Hamshire and analyzing what makes me tick. I realized staying in a major (Computer Engineering) where I care more about Monkeys dancing than what processes I need to go through to create a micro processor was just enslaving myself. I knew I will never apply for a Computer Engineering Job and I have no plans of being locked behind a cubicle but that is what I have spent the last four years doing, setting myself up for, a life I knew I did not want. I am a software guy, I enjoy the instant gratification of coding something and you can immediately see it work, I like the idea that your mainly self sufficient and need little support from third parties to make your imaginations come true, if something breaks it was most likely your fault and lastly the elegance in code, looking at the way lines of text control a machine is just astounding.

In order to prevent slavery. I have taken control of the steering wheel and officially changed my major from Computer Engineer to Software Engineer. Now I think things are gonna turn for the better and my last year is gonna be fun. You should really read the post above, it is an easy read that shows how many of us pursue something for the wrong reason, what is scary about that is that we cannot self actualize because there will be always something missing.