Biography of a Balloonatic

Here we are again for another rousing entry in the Party Palace Facelift blog. This would be infinitely more interesting if I was any good at blogging, but we'll just have to muddle through together.

I've always been interested in gadgets, from the time my dad brought home an Atari, complete with this FASCINATING game called Centipede. A few years later, he brought home our first PC. A lovely IBM named Hal. I snuck every minute on it I could, and before long I was hooked. For Christmas when I was 11, my parents gave me an Apple IIe... with a color screen. *GASP* Over the years, new gadgets, new computers, I'm an addict. I haven't found a 12 step program developed for the likes of me yet, but I'm sure eventually they'll think of one. I probably won't go though, cuz no one likes a quitter.

For years I kind of bumbled along, trying to find a job doing things I liked. The problem was, I always ended up finding jobs that just let me do things I was good at, not necessarily things I really enjoyed doing. I did radio, which I loved, but eventually the corporate nonsense of it kind of killed it for me. Computers still hold an immense attraction for me, though. When the opportunity to go back to school arose, I chose to go in that direction, rather than back in the direction I was heading with radio. So far, so good. I like what I'm studying, and it's going well. My goal for when I finish this degree is to try and get a job working on Ft Wainwright in one of the IT divisions, utilizing what I've learned, and actually trying to have a career, rather than just a job that I put up with, as I did for so very long. I'll actually be sad to leave Party Palace when the time comes, it's been the first job I've had in a very long time that I look forward to going to work.

As far as IT goes, I really prefer the web design side of it. I like the creativity that's involved, making something new. While I'm still learning, and I'm not the best there is yet, I look forward to learning more and more every day.