What am I doing here?

I'm a sound engineer; not in the science sense, in the listening sense. I work in television production doing location audio, dialogue recording and editing, effects recording and editing, sound design, music editing, and mixing. What's great about my job is that I get to do all of these things for nearly every project I work on. What's bad about my job is that I HAVE to do all of these for every project I work on.

There's one other audio guy at the company I work for, and he helps out with these things as he can, but his primary responsibility is to compose the music for each of these productions. Anyone who's done music before knows what a beast that can be.

The fact that I do all of these things actually isn't a bad thing. I like it, I really do. It keeps me well rounded. I guess the real problem is that I always feel so crunched for time, that I have to pass over cool ideas or don't experiment enough because I've got that deadline ahead; and know exactly how much time everything else is going to take me. It's a constant stream of attrition across all of those areas.

I feel like I'm being lazy about further developing my skills, and I'm tired of it. So, I'm giving myself more tasks outside of work. Tasks that are just for me. I want to experiment with ideas again, and I'm going to. Here.

I'm using a public forum to give me the impetus to keep going and push myself further along. Even if all I do is occassionally come on and write out an idea or two, at least I'll have followed it a little further than I've been able to recently.

I don't know how many people will actually see this post, or even read all the way through it, but thanks for visiting.