The Website of Kyle Thomas (KyleWith)
Hard to write about your day to day. When your not sure what you have to say. Alas that is okay. Because this is your site and you can write what you want. Just don’t flaunt and taunt.
You know I’m a lyrical genius.
That is all for today.
For you Apple fans out there, Apple is holding another press event today at 9am pacific time. “Back to the Mac”
Well I’m alone and reading. So naturally my mind is wandering around the internet, observing other, and taking in what they are sharing.
I’m having one of those moments I have every once and a while where I don’t feel I excel at anything, and don’t belong. Basically this is just the outcome of being alone, but that is something I can’t change.
That and I’m quite convinced I’m tired and probably need sleep. Now you see why I like working, because it is a time where I can be around other people. I guess I’m not the thriving loner I once proclaimed myself to be.
Must think. Must pull myself out of this. Must get out there. But how. Hmm.
Tomorrow will be a new day, and I will feel as those this brief moment on a Sunday night never happened.
What am I passionate about. What should drive me.
Bring on the positive comments. I know there will be some.
There is something else I just noticed, I’m highly sarcastic and don’t like pity. Huh pity ain’t it.
I think I’ll need to revisit this tomorrow and reread what I’m actually writing here.
Here is my update to date on life in the John, or Fort St John. Shouldn’t be confused with that east coast place. ek.
I’m driving too.
Funny to think that one year ago I was on a plane back to Yellowknife for the Thanksgiving weekend. I was like many other students heading back to Yellowknife while being away from school. The only difference was I really wasn’t happy with my situation.
I was in Dawson Creek, BC, a fine city of 10,000 people, taking a program for Business Management or something or rather, I was 1 of 3 people in the classes. This was a problem. The content was very dry, and very unappealing. To top that, because of the lack of human interaction I was getting, and being to reserved to go out, I went into a depressing slump.
I wasn’t happy, I wasn’t learning anything, and I wasn’t meeting anyone. Sure you can blame this partly on me for not taking the initiative to get out, but that was just who I was. Needless to say when I went home for Thanksgiving, I made the decision to quite school and drive back to Yellowknife upon returning to Dawson.
I do not regret that decision one bit, maybe I regret the $5000 I was in debt, but that just comes with the experience. Over the next year I got to do some amazing things, and grow as a person. I worked my way out of debt, slowly, wrote up business proposals, got government funding, consulted at a large conference, had a booth at a trade show, covered all most every event in Yellowknife during the time, was “Media” at the 30th Folk on the Rocks, fell in love with Hawaii, got a “good job, we should talk” from the mayor of Yellowknife, toured around Alberta and BC in September (creating the current debt I have now) and got offered a job on the eve of my 20th birthday in August.
Needless to say I took the job and that is what leads us to today. Had I not do all those things, and pushed myself to get out of my shell, I don’t think I would have taken the job, nor do I think I would have been offered it. I’m a bit of a believer that the resume is dead, and in this case mine was, I don’t even know where it is, my boss – friend – Andrew, kept a close eye on me for a year after we met in Dawson Creek, while I was in school, and I guess thought I had the potential to help grow his business.
The story of what I actually do at work is for another day, but I will close this post with a smile on my face, because I’m happy. Although I’m in debt $3000 right now and am 1500km away from family and the city I love, I know I’m in the right place and I’m having a blast doing it. I’m a huge believer in only doing what you love, and I can truly say I love what I’m doing. I’m working in a great place, with great people, with a LOT of great opportunities.
Yesterday I had the chance to meet with two different clients. It was great, because not only could I share my passion, but I could also see theirs.
What I love about working with clients and part of writing a community website, is you get to meet people from different walks of life. For some strange reason I love learning about what other people do. It doesn’t even matter what they do. Most of the time they are passionate about what they do as well, so the energy in the room just explodes.
Another thing I love about this job is how you never know what the next day will hold. Yesterday I worked with client on their projects, today I’ll be sitting in on a local talk show over at the radio station across the street from our office. Then I may be taking a camera down to a new kids entertainment centre, which is complete with laser tag, rock climbing and on.
Needless to say, I don’t think I’ll ever get bored.