On Purposefulness and Goal Orientation

One day while being a student I came to a job interview at the company SWH-T. The position was called Lotus Notes developer which is a normal job at the beginning of the career (if you are an ambitious person you will run away from it after 1-2 years). I was already working, but SWH-T was a bigger company primarily focusing on software development which would be a nice experience for me. In addition, SWH-T was one of few big software companies in Latvia and it was collaborating with universities and having a number of students in its staff.

During the interview the main guy asked me how is my English, if I know anything about Lotus Notes, and what was my 3rd year project at the university. I answered that my English should be alright, I haven't seen Lotus Notes and my project was about approximation using cubic splines. The guy asked me why did I choose this topic and how it relates to what I'm going to do in life.

At that moment I understood that there are people that know what they want from life and they align all their activities according to their goals. I chose this topic for my project because I didn't understand it well during the course of numeric methods. I got 8 out of 10 for it, because I did it well, but nothing special from the mathematician's point of view (my supervisor was a cool mathematician). I was happy with it, because I was able to understand the topic.

I didn't get the job. I think they missed a good Lotus Notes developer, because I'm quite good at documents and scripting. Later on I was more prepared for job interviews and I got a job I was not really qualified to.

Starcraft Addiction

Life is like a starcraft game - if you don't have a good strategy, you fail.

I'm back to my favorite computer game after 4 years break :) Still working hard, but trying to find some hour a day and try to kick my computer or human opponents.