Ok, more than a year passed since my last post. So I miserably failed the journey I intended to begin hahaha

Life got crazy, I moved to the US, so lots of bureaucracies, decisions, goodbyes, and work happening at the same time. And then the pandemic.

And for me not only our way to live changed, but my priorities, values and way to see life changed a lot. My mental health became my main preoccupation.

So it was June, and I was burned out. After a lot of thinking and therapy, I decided to stop working and take a sabbatical trimester to study and reroute my life and career.

Let me be straight: I’ve been working with agencies for a long time, and although I enjoy having various clients and doing all kinds of projects and challenges, the short deadlines and not being able to work deeply on them was making me unsatisfied for a long time. And that plus the exhaustion and not having time or disposition to update my game, study, and try the new technologies on side projects. I was always feeling behind and unfit to search for a different kind of job, not in the agency world.

But since I depended on the money, I was always hiding these thoughts from myself. And It’s not that I don’t need money anymore hahaha But I saved a lot my whole life, and I’m really privileged for being able to do this pause now.

With everything settled, it was August 24th when I got to start this new chapter, with a lot of fear but also excitement. I had a few ideas of projects to do, and technologies to study, and concepts to recycle. It took me some time to figure a good routine and have a flow, but now I feel ready to come back here and start to share my process and discoveries.

Hope this time I stick with the blogging hahahah

Ana.