Up until college I thought I would make a great astronaut, but only for the drama of it. Got an English degree. Learned web design. Got a music composition degr

Up until college I thought I would make a great astronaut, but only for the drama of it. Got an English degree. Learned web design. Got a music composition degree. Got my first job in web design because I didn't have the stomach to grind it out for a composition job. Self taught (via the web and the library) on software development, agile, patterns, graphic design, web standards, XML, XHTML, CSS, XPath, XSL, accessibility, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Java, Mac, Linux (Gentoo! emerge FTW!), WordPress, MySQL (it's "My Ess Cue Ell", btw), screencasting (remember that? Thanks, Camtasia), more architecture, Ruby on Rails (hallelujah, best decision I ever made), PostgreSQL, temporary small business owner, Node.js, cloud, Christopher Alexander, Solution Architecture, Product Management, way too many business and organizational books, Elixir/Phoenix, Common Lisp, and what's next? I still write and play music for fun. I write what feels like endless amounts of communication and essays for work (thank you, Department of Rhetoric). I'm a thought jumper. Always have been. Blessing and a curse, as they say. Do I envy those who were able to specialize and find fortune, keep their sanity, and look good doing it? Absolutely there are days that I do. But regret being a generalist? Honestly, I think I would go crazy if I tried to force myself to be anything other than.