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What you have landed on, possibly inadvertently, is the website of a certain curious character a.k.a Nigel Fernandes
The aim of this page was to serve as a landing point for those of you who want to know a little more about me. The links on the right and left will take you deeper my world, or possibly on to different exciting things.
Its a big web out there and this is just one more street for you to saunter down. I hope you like it.
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About Me
- Name: Nigel Fernandes
- Location: Panjim, Goa, India
Crazy, dancing, programming, Goan.. I'm a computer geek and proud to be one. I program in Java, Ruby and .Net, PHP, Javascript. A lot of my recent work has been about CSS and UI design practices for large scale websites and Agile teams. I still while away hours dreaming up a web startup.
Are you asking yourself the right questions?
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
At certain points in your career, you're going to look at what you are doing, what you have accomplished and what you want to accomplish.At times like that, there are bound to be some core questions you ask yourself. I'm not going to add much to a topic best covered by people far more experienced than me.
I will however add a couple of questions that I have found tremendously useful:
1) Do I want to be a big fish in a small pond, or a small fish in a big pond.
2) Do I want to be challenged and afraid, or safe and within my limits.
In the words of Don Juan (culled from Freelance Switch):
Look at every path closely and deliberately. Does this path have heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn’t.
One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.
A path without heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy, it does not make you work at liking it.
Labels: career decisions, thoughts
