I’ve spent my entire professional experience working my way up from PC Support to Network Administration. At this point, I have a lot of IT skills under my belt including NT, Novell, Citrix, and some Unix and Linux, as well as various hardware, butI feel like I’m trapping myself in a dry and technical career, and I find my motivation is slipping away.
I love writing (mostly non-fiction, opinion-oriented writing, although I also enjoy fiction) and feel it’s my strongest aptitute. I’m also a music fanatic. I consider myself to be as creative as I am technical, but I’m finding that the more I neglect the creative side of my brain, the more I lose touch with it and the more apathetic I become about my work.
I would like to find work that provides more of a balance between my computer skills and my creative side. I’ve been looking into web design, but it seems like web designers are a dime a dozen these days.
Given the choice, I’d rather be a writer or a musician than a network admin, but my career background is nearly all technological and I’d be hard pressed to make a complete switch at this point. I’d like to at least find a happy medium.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might proceed?
