Somedays, like today, I get up and question my current situations. Why am I here? Not exactly in context of life but in context of my career and my focus.

It's healthy to question your direction, its healthy to look at your direction and re-align it with proper priorities and insights. A self evaluation, if you will, on your own technical accomplishments and direction. So for me, I feel I have really been blooming in an area of focus I had originally set out to do in college. I loved the idea of rich internet applications, I loved delivering amazing, quality and motion and life, to what used to be a very static and boring interaction. I love creating great user experiences. So I find it interesting that after 5+ years I am in the swing of doing just that. After college I gave up the design hat of my life sort to speak. Somewhere along my way I veered off to be a software engineer and it took a great deal of prying to find out my closet design skills, which are admittedly rusty. Granted, I would defend that I never really gave up on design or user experience... I always made conscious descisions to build good user experiences in those things I had developed.

I love where I am at currently. I want more... I need more. Which is a great sign, I have a passion that breaks into my own personal time. Just a little over a year ago I would not have wasted any of my free time doing what I did at work. I did my thing during the day and immediately rushed home to do something else. For me, shamefully, it was World of Warcraft or some other video game. But now, I go home, break out my wacom tablet and just draw up ideas... learn more... feed the hunger of becoming better and coming up with cooler ideas. I am back to enjoying what I do... I am back to having synergy and passion for something that can feed my personal determinations...

If you're not there, evaluate... find your passion...