I have worked in web for quite a while now. The web was rising fast when I was in college. I took an interest and parlayed that into a career. I’ve written for the web, managed web projects, and have even done a little coding and development. If you ask me what I do for a living, I would answer “web project management.”
Life After Web is, in part, a nod to the pivotal role this tool has played in my adult life.
It’s more than that, though. It also represents that part of our day that should characterize who we are. That is, how we spend our hours outside of our job, after the work day is done.
Our society places a lot of emphasis on where we earn our income, but I’m more interested in what you are working to support. In my case, this means reflecting on what my life is after I walk away from my web job.
I capture a glimmer of magic with my pen or my camera. I dance in my room when no one is watching. I snuggle with my family, keep a small garden, and read a lot.
We can ask each other what we do for a living or we can ask each other how we live. We’ll learn something either way, but the latter may tell us more about who we are.
You’ll find me at the Working Mother Mom Blogs, on Twitter, Flickr, Imagekind, and Life After Web: the blog.
