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Find Something To Be Passionate About

As many of you know I've been blogging for 2 years now and I can now say that it has helped me find what I'm truly passionate about, and it's not blogging itself. Writing on this blog has helped me find my niché and passion on the web. You may know it as Weborithm, my own web development company.

At first, when I started blogging, I thought this was what I wanted to do for a long time to come. I loved it in it's infancy and watched it grow to what it is now, a big money making machine. Then somewhere down the line I think it all started getting a bit too tedious.  I didn't like the ugly side of it that you see quite a lot around the blogosphere today.

I was always a design person and even while blogging I maintained my freelance career. Only after getting into blogging and backtracking "competitively" out of it did I realize that I'm truly passionate about design, so I went back full swing to it.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy blogging {Weborithm has a blog, not hugely updated- but it does}, and I still plan on continuing to write. I'm just not all about the "make money online" and beat the other guy with a bigger list of "Top 10 Ways to...". I'm way past that, it's ridiculous nonsense if you ask me.

So how did my passion develop back onto web development? Here are the four most important points I could think about -

• I figured that's what I wanted to do - I only realized it after doing something else for a period of time. Sometimes you need to take a sidestep to see if you like that path. You can always come back and go forward again.
• I took the time to learn more about my passion - I took on as many challenging jobs as possible to better my skills. It's quite a feeling to know what a page will look like by just typing it out in code instead of code, refresh, code, refresh, delete, look up reference, code, refresh. Now it's just code it out and I know exactly how it'll look {90% of the time, the 10% is IE 6}.
• I got rid of stuff I couldn't spend at least one day in a week working on - If you cannot spend at the minimum one day a week looking over your own projects then you better not start any. Even if it's just for a few hours to look over things. There's no such thing as "Set it and forget it" on the internet.
• Most importantly, I had fun doing it - It's not work anymore, sure it pays the bills and I'd have a hard time paying them if I didn't do this. But at least I'm not complaining about what I'm doing.

Blogging will always be an extension of me. It's something that I'll probably always do, as long as the internet is around, and I thank it for helping me find my passion.

Has blogging helped you find what you are passionate about doing yet?

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• Dated: May 14, 2008