Moving Forward - Maybe

Well,
I have now registered in the last two courses to acquire a Diploma in Web Design. I am hoping this will open some doors for me, give me some direction and hopefully earn an income.

I will complete a couple of Web sites and publish them. Hopefully they will attract some customers.

Background - History

Jack-Of-All:
Aeronautics - Worked at Bristol Aerospace in the Design and Program departments.

• Designed modifications to rockets, launcher and shipping containers,
• project managed launch programs, and
• Flew rockets (Mission Controller).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Brant_(rocket)

Management: my management skills developed from direct supervision to senior manager at a Director Level. I managed upward of 350 employees in telecommunicaitons in various desciplines. Some of the skills involved:

• Project Management of major projects,
• Integration of business processes, systems and organizational structures,
• Management of Outside plant, Engineering and Specialized communication service operations,
• Process improvements,
• Team Building,
• Management of Customer Services - Large Business Accounts,
• Computer System development (Design, testing and implementation), and
• Management and development of contracts for computer systems and major projects in telecommunications.

Other Skill sets:

• Pilot aircraft,
• Skipper 43 foot sailboats both in cruising and racing along with bare boat charter in foreign countries,
• Navigator land, sea and air with or without GPS,
• Can program in six different copmuter programming languages,
• Handy around the house. Can renovate (infloor heating, drywall, wiring, plumbing, framing, finishing),
• Computer literate in all of the MicroSoft Office applicaitons, and most of the Adobe Web Site Design applications, and
• photography

Physical Activities include:

• Skiing (water, touring, alpine and X-country);
• Rock Climbing;
• Tennis, squash, racket ball, badminton and table tennis;
• Hike, run (10 K), and swim;
• Golf, fishing

Community involvement:

• Chair of Church Council
• Director and Treasurer of Hospital Foundation
• President of a international service club

And, many more things...
Master of None:
Other than my employment I didn't focus on specializing in one topic. Good in a lot but not an expert.
I am feeling rudderless... aimless... without direction or motivation and could use some extra cash. I would like to get back to work to grain purpose and an income but in what... to do what.... who out there needs me?

My First Blog Posting

This opens yet another chapter in this old book of mine. I am now into Blogging. The purpose of this blog is to explore how life unfolds for many of us. In my case, I seem to be a Jack-Of-All, Master of None. Which in some circumstances is great but it lacks passion and drive. I admire many of my friends who have developed a keen knowledge and skill set surrounding some particular topic yet I find they a missing out on many other things.

I find myself very interested in a lot of subjects and activities. Yet, I can not bring myself to devote a lot of my time and energy pursuing any one of them. I would like to. It seems if I do it is at the expense of missing out on other things. I will certainly explore them but will stop short of becoming well versed or accomplished in them. A sense of lost opportunities is the underlying dread.

This leads onto the next posting. If not driven... where does one get the focus to move forward in life?

So, there, my first posting... what do you think? Feel the same? Have a different philosophy? Let's hear out it.