Rather than become someone, I want to choose my own life.

Engineering, photography, making. As the titles multiplied, I began to feel I didn’t have to settle on just one.

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I left my job at 33 and looked for a new title. I became an IT engineer, took photographs, built apps with AI, and mixed mortar. Each is part of me, but none is all of me.

Choosing how to live, rather than becoming someone. I write about how my thinking has changed through these different pursuits.

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