Mind The Gap: Focusing On Priorities
If you’ve been following me for the last few weeks, you probably know that I made it safe and sound to London nearly two weeks ago, in order to begin my Computer Science with Management degree at King’s College London (and my desk is a lot messier than this, if you’re wondering). After one week of sightseeing and eating nachos off the floor (true story), I was quickly blown away by the amount of opportunity in this wonderful city, which I don’t intend on missing out on - and that’s what I want to talk about today.
For my short two-week stay in London, I think I have already accomplished a fair amount. I feel that I’m performing well at University, yet as I have said many times before, King’s will only represent a fraction of what I want to do now and in the future. That’s why, as you might have already heard, I have secured an internship at the student recruitment website The Student Job, which is run by fellow King’s student Jack Tang. While I’m just getting started, the team at TSJ seems like an incredibly intelligent, insightful and creative bunch. This internship will not only be a great experience at all levels, it will also help me acquire certain skills, especially on the programming and management sides, that will be very useful to me now and in the future.
But that is where the other shoe drops. Given the unexpected amount of opportunity and achievement in such a short period of time, holding on to my current writing job at RedmondPie just won’t be possible. Don’t get me wrong, the website and the team are great, but so are the opportunities I’d miss out on if I were to hold on to this time-consuming job, which although very well-paid, doesn’t meet my long-term objectives, plus the time spent on it per day would stop me from taking action in other fronts. Given this, I contacted the powers that be on Monday to discuss my options, and we have reached the agreement that I would step aside from the daily news posting and instead take a contributor role: under this new role, I’ll write opinion pieces and other original content several times a month, all about the hottest subjects in the world of technology. The transition to this new role has begun and will be completed on October 15th. In short, I’m not leaving RedmondPie, I’m just taking steps to make sure that the amount of work I do on the website is sustainable and doesn’t drown out my other commitments.
This change alone will leave me with a fair amount of free time, which I’ll use wisely: some on necessary University work and most of it on other non-academic projects that will ultimately benefit me going forward. I have a few announcements queued up, including one which I shall make in the next few days. Until then, stay classy (wait, are you still reading this?)
