The Ladder 🪜

Onegai shimasu (おねがい します)  🙇

When going into an industry, you’ll most likely know what you want to do: a speciality. You may have to do other things to get there first. When I got into the game industry, I wanted to make robots. My first job was to make UIs with a max resolution on 640x480, and two colors: green and black. And I did my best. I learned a ton about UI/UX. Later, I was able to make robots. Only, by then, I discover I wanted to do other things.

Things change. You’ll change.

There will be times that you will have to make a choice: do I do “x” to get to what I really want or do I take a high paying gig that is not what I really want to specialize in? I had a chance to take a well paying position. And I walked away from it. I took another job that did not pay as well,  however, I was happier. Although the other job was for a very prestigious company, I would have had to have made sacrifices I did not want to make. 

We’ll go over the “Power of No” at a later date