What do I do for work?

What am I doing with my life?

When family members, new friends, or really anyone asks me, “So what do you do for work?” I freeze. I end up scanning my own life for a clean answer and never quite find one.

Some weeks, I am sitting in a living room with my business partner,David Woodward, pushing Truck Packer updates, chasing bugs, and arguing about edge cases no normal person should care about. Other days, I am on camera running trainings for church volunteers, trying to compress a lifetime of technical and musical experience into a three-hour crash course that somehow has to land for everyone in the room.

Then there are the days where I fake being a marketing expert. I run social experiments that feel more like educated guesses than strategy. I recently spent two hours uploading nine different “trial reels.” Think A/B testing, except I did A through I. Slight tweaks to captions, location tagging, background choice, etc, all in hopes that something catches the algorithm’s attention. Maybe it works. Maybe it is just noise. Hard to tell when the data set is small and your confidence is smaller.

So what am I doing with my life?

Honestly, I do not fully know. But I do know I am having fun figuring it out.

When I zoom out, the answer becomes clearer. I launched a SaaS company without even knowing what “SaaS” meant. I did not understand tech stacks, startup math, or the hundreds of ambiguous business acronyms people throw around like everyone was born knowing them. Now I do. Or at least I know enough to be dangerous.

Even if growth completely stalls tomorrow, I will still walk away grateful. The amount of knowledge gained, the skills stacked, and the perspective earned along the way already feel worth the effort. I am building, learning, experimenting, and occasionally failing forward.

Maybe that is the answer after all.