Well, I have talked to my wife about starting a blog about this whole new iOS journey.
But, before we dive into that. I am gonna tell you my story of how accidentally I stumbled upon this journey. I studied petroleum engineering in college for 4 years. The reason I got into that was because one of uncles informed (unofficially) my parents that petroleum engineering would make me rich someday. Unfortunately, he was kind of the educated guy within this big family of mine and worse, my parents are all famers, so they knew nothing about choosing majors. In the end, my parents and I, we bought that crap.
After 4 years of college (well, I did pretty well in college, FYI), I continued studying petroleum geology for my Master's. You would think that I got into a major oil company. But, No!!! The time I got graduated, the oil price was plummeting. Major oil companies were just too busy laying off people rather than hiring them. So, I kind of had no choice but changing my career. Because I once prepared to go to the U.S. to pursue a Ph.D, I took TOEFL and GRE. And their scores turned out to be fairly good(you have to understand I am trying to be modest here), so, I decided to teach TOEFL speaking. Well, in China, doing that is actually a bit lucrative. The average payment for me was almost 10K per month, of course, before taxes. To be honest, that's great for a newly-graduated student. As you get more experience of teaching, you could also teach other subjects as well, then you could earn more than that. So, that was like a sliver lining of this "can't going to the States" thing.
Roughly 8 months later, I suddenly felt overwhelmed by this job. I mean, it's a great job indeed - you don't have to deal with complex relationships and all; and I love English; and you earn money just by speaking. But, really, I wasn't a good teacher. I was so good to be a student that I forget how to be a good teacher. I mean, I am fast-learner, if it's not for rocket science. But, when it comes to teaching, you not only assume the role of imparting knowledge, but also your class is supposed to be fun. But, most of the time, my class isn't engaging enough. So, I felt very guilty of this. Plus, it's not challenging enough - you repeat most of your stuff every time just with minor alterations. It's physically demanding, that's for sure, because sometimes you have to lecture 10 hours straight. But, as a human being, you want to be intellectually challenged - that's why we like to play certain computer games. So, I quit.
While I was struggling about quitting teaching, I had this vague idea of doing computer programming. But, really, I din't have much experience of doing this. All I had was passion, which, with good reason to believe, is ungrounded and wild.
So, on February 27th, I bought my first Mac and was ready to take this wild passion seriously. Well, without my wife's support, understanding, and most importantly fanning the flames, I hardly could man up to buy this Mac. Not that I lacked the money, but I always come up with imaginary obstacles in the future. So, my wife basically dragged me to the Apple Store nearby and bought this Mac.
Well, now we are finally onto this why "starting blogging" thing.
I want to have a dairy-like stuff to record my learning process. So, the reasons to start blogging are twofold.
1. Simply, it's good practice for my typing. It's also good to have a record to show what I have along the way starting from today (2016-3-21). Plus, these problems that I meet down this path should really be archived and can be referred to in the future.
2. I never started a blog before. So, this might be awesome.
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