I have just turned 28. My last 3 years have been spent working in a tech start-up and we have recently been acquired in an ugly takeover that forfeited our equity. The work itself isn’t super difficult (I might enjoy it more if my role were more intellectually arduous – we have engineers and an impeccable data science team) – but I find I have very little bandwidth for anything else. I got into this role via growing a big ceramics operation, but I fell into that from a background in sculpture. I dont know how I’ve wound up as an operations / strategy consultant.
Through this whole journey, however I have just produced my first short film! Directed and co-written by a good ol friend of mine.
The combination of having just finished these two projects has left me feeling like I’m at a big junction in my life and completely rudderless. I am trying not to knee jerk out of any current stability but I can feel myself going mouldy and I need to get inspired and do something different (ironically, I just saw this post “books to read when you feel stuck and lost in life” which virtually could have been from me 7 years ago).
The last books I read were All the Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian (McCarthy), American Pastoralist (Phil Roth), The Power and the Glory (Greene) and the The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder). Now I’ve just finished some non-fiction, Doppelgangers by Naomi Klein.
I’m hoping to get some recommendations for this mood that I’m in, that also might inspire me too and encourage me to be creative. It could be some inspiring fiction (I’ve been thinking about rereading The Secret History (Donna Tart) or The Book of Emma Reyes) or maybe some self-helpy/psychologyish non-fiction or political books that would stoke the fires.
Im casting a wide net 😂
by poolett