So as I write this I find myself at a crossroads both personally and professionally and I thought it might be a decent idea to write a brief retrospective on how I came to where I am now. While the idea is to give both myself and whoever is interested a perspective in my path from dabbler to someone who is now legitimately staking it out as my career, I understand that this whole essay could just be a belabored exercise in navel gazing, and if that doesn't strike you as in an