Back to EdTech...

I started a new job at the start of the month. I meant to write a post about it sooner, but the past two weeks have flown by in a haze of meetings, more (depressing) covid news, family stuff and life.

I've spent the past few years working as a software developer and then technical product owner. I really enjoyed everyone I worked with, and there were interesting product challenges and hurdles, but I always struggled to love the product. There was nothing wrong with it, and I suppose most people don't love what they work on. It's often just a means to an end. But it was tough being in that position after having spent so many years in edtech (and grad school before that) where I really did love my work.

Still, when the opportunity presented itself for me to move back into edtech, I was hesitant. The idea was exciting but also scary, as change always is. But in the end, the lure of the job, the promise of getting back to making tech for good and working with researchers was impossible to resist.

So here I am, two weeks into my new job, that is actually also an old job. I'm back working for Eyeread, although now focused on Dreamscape and not Squiggle Park. I've had more meetings over the past two weeks than I probably did over the past two months at my old job, but I leave each one feeling inspired about what's to come, who I'm working with, and overflowing with ideas. It's a welcome change.

That said, I do find as I skim the news, watching the skyrocketing covid numbers or today's election announcement, that I find myself thinking back to my old job and wondering about the discussions happening there. I guess it's just a reminder that there is good to every job, and every experience. And that at the end of the day, it's the people that make it all bearable (or unbearable).