I'm a New Mexico boy (can I still be a boy, though, at 58?) who lost his way and ended up living in Finland. I've got 3 adult children, and 2 young ones (6 and 3). Have been influential in the juniors ultimate scene in Finland, and done a fair bit of community theater. Love sci-fi. Have a passion for languages.

My expertise is computer programming (most recently w/React), but my interests (see above) and other talents are kinda all over the place. Been trying for quite some time to figure out how I can best be of use to the world in general, and so far my best efforts were perhaps during the years that I founded and ran a computer recycling/repair shop that focused on open source advocacy.

I'm in the unfortunate position of still not knowing what I want to do with my life, but do know I want to make a real difference. My talents, as I said, being all over the place, also means that there's no one, clear path for me to follow. I'm starting the Introductory EA course next week and hoping that will give me some insight and ideas. I'm more than happy to connect with others, please give me a shout.

I would really like to find a role where I can apply my CliftonStrengths®: 1. Connectedness 2. Positivity 3. Developer 4. Includer 5. Learner

Especially that first one seems very "squishy" and even the combo of the five doesn't just scream a specific role or task to me. Any insight anyone might have in this area is greatly welcome!

I'm still an absolute n00b re: EA, but feel like I'm a good sounding board. Also, I can talk about starting an ultimate team, open source software, founding a disc golf course, acting, languages (Finnish, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Esperanto -- I don't claim to speak all of these, but have studied them all to some extent), etc...