meme: redux

Unaccountably, I missed two sections off the jobs and aspirations meme yesterday, so here they are, FWIW:

I have also spent a lot of time as a...
social cripple and generally disfunctional human being; also, a lot of time, as they say, getting my head together - by myself, in healing and therapy workshops, and being whacked about the head with a wet fish by people who, unaccountably, didn't give up on me (thanks!). I carry my past still, of course, but it's a lot less heavy these days :)

I am happy/hideously disappointed with my career choice...
It works for me. Programming, in the broadest sense, really is my one outstanding skill and getting paid to do what I love is not in any way a bad thing.

The one thing I most wish I could do that I know not how is to articulate my thoughts and ideas well and clearly in words. There are many, many subjects about which I think deeply and hold ideas and opinions that I wish I could share, whether is writing or in speech: I just seem to be unable to translate concepts, thoughts, castles of internal abstraction, into coherent sentences such that I can actually communicate what's in me to you out there.

It's frustrating.

Can't really argue with this...

Via brad, here are some wise words from Linus Torvalds:

When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you
do what they say? Same thing goes for customers and managers. They are the
crazy voices in your head, and you need to set them right, not just
blindly do what they ask for.