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Where Do I Want to Go? Where Am I Going?

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A sense of purpose for life (and where can I give it concrete form?):

health, family, picking up skills, foreign languages, drawing, everyday art, giving shape to thought, service design, normalstory, appropriate distribution in step with growth, sustainable design.


Do I know, right now, “what kind of person am I?” and “what kind of person should I be?”

And am I not forgetting it? What am I choosing and doing for it?


Am I aiming for employment? Am I looking for what I want to do?


Who am I?

Where do I want to go? Where am I going?

What does it mean to “go somewhere”?



> Environment

                                 Graffiti (Apgujeong)                                                         Buam-dong Barber Shop (Jongno)

3,200 / 266  3,000 / 250 

Rent 40, food 30, transport 10, 

Rent 40, food 10, 

- Web planning, site building, service planning 

- Web skills I’ve done, screen design, proposing new businesses, internal study

- Service design, design, photography, product registration, packaging, scheduling, general office work, web design, wrapping, shipping, Makeshop 

- Handling the detailed parts of running the business

Web-service specialist team, many people

Individual specialists, few people 
Stable, protective mindset, resume, credential management  Self-driven activity, free will and environment 

> Cons

- If it’s a web agency, it’s all more or less the same? 

- Lack of mobile and development environment.

- Operating / planning work for business that’s brought in.

- Grunt work? Office-support? Operator?
- Can I voice opinions?
- Continued brainstorming and feasibility for app ideas?
- Performance of design work?
- Loneliness? Doing everything alone?
- Self-development and educational growth possible? 

Issue of reactions and adaptation to co-workers beyond the owner.

Issue of living expenses and personal health management.

In either case, internal education and alignment activities are needed.

Issue of re-employment later (another career change? or a similar position?).

Work on old skills, not cutting-edge ones.

Risk of being reduced to consumption of knowledge I already have?

No dedicated planning expert.

Worry about the possibility of building internal education and shared understanding.

Beyond internal education, I have to figure it out alone. 

Have to look for a place to live.

They say they’ll provide a place, but still the worry about furniture, etc.





This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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