Frustration (Photo credit: music2work2)
Since returning to full-time employment earlier this year, I’ve been in a little bit of a creative funk. Not sure what caused it. Was it the security of a regular paycheck? Was is it the lack of using my web skills in the job?
I’ve been neglecting my professional website for freelancing for a while. Every time I looked at it, I felt restless. I knew I wanted to freshen it up, but I wasn’t sure exactly what I wanted to do. Did I just want to change a few things here and there or did I want to wipe the whole thing away and start from scratch?
Gaaaaah!!!
Compounding my frustration was the feeling I was falling out of touch with my web development knowledge. To combat this, I started working a little each day through the lessons on Codecademy just to keep my knowledge in check. Even if I only had enough time in my day to knock out one step in a multi-step lesson, I did it. I felt a little bit better, but I still felt like I was lacking.
Having a Gold membership to Treehouse, I started poking around the bonus content that came with my membership. I hadn’t really checked it out in a while so there was quite a bit to see. Late on a Wednesday night, I started watching the Treeviews and Teacher Q&A sections. Watching the complete catalogue of these two sections sparked something in me. I suddenly knew exactly what kind of feel I wanted to feel give my website.
Throughout my life, I’ve tended to get along with people older than me. “You have an old soul” was something often told to me. Instead of shying away from this in my web presence, I decided to embrace it. I’ve had a long fascination with the 1940s, outside of World War II. The last few months, I’ve been listening to a lot of music from the 1940s and started playing L.A. Noire again. I “beat” the game last year, but every now and again, I enjoy playing it just because it wonderfully captures late 1940s Los Angeles. Yup, my web presence is going vintage; not because it’s cool, but because it’s me.
I tried to go to bed that night, but I had a tricky time falling sleep. I was too excited. My mind was going a mile a minute thinking of where I could take my site. Creative funk conquered.
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