Self-Learning Experiences

I am really glad to share my self-learning experiences with people. Perhaps many people have already been doing this for a long time, but I still would like to share the pleasure with others.
I have been working for four months since I was graduated. It is true that I , as an international student, get the job in the United States. However, I feel like that this job does not meet my expectation. I don't want to describe what's wrong with the company, because it is the company that I have been working. I still really appreciate that they gave me this work opportunity. The reason that I mentioned this is because the problem lies on the fact that I am not quite satisfied with my personal growth (or career development) in this company. I told one of my colleagues. Guess what? She sometimes has this kind of feeling; therefore, she recommended that I do some research on Internet or read articles related to the projects that we are working on, because it means that I am able to recognize the problems and try to find the solutions. I also described this situation to one of my friends, and I think she gave me very good suggestions. She told me that it is good timing to explore knowledge by myself. It sounds very difficult for me, because I did not explore or find out the knowledge on my own; I always have teachers give me something to learn. I still remember that when I had the class "Adult Learning and Instruction", the classmates were talking about self-exploring experiences. At that time, I did not understand the spirit of this learning method, so I seldom remember the theory. Now, I believe it is truly one of the features of adult learning. I am thinking it is the process that people not only find out useful information by themselves but also organize and map these pieces of information systematically and meaningfully.
Then, I start exploring knowledge. It might be very slow, but I believe it worths a lot. This is also why I created this blog to record something.
Although I was hired as an instructional designer, I still have a bunch of things to learn. I am too new in this field. I felt kind of sorry for my job title "instructional designer", because I indeed use the Internet every day and also use facebook, but I rarely make good use of Internet to enrich my knowledge, not to mention blogging, wiki or podcasting to exchange the ideas and connect with other people. However, it is a very important thing to spend time doing this kind of stuff. In the past, I had classmates and we learned together; nevertheless, since nowadays I feel a little bit isolated while learning, I am eager to know and see what other people are doing.
Fortunately, I found out Ms. Christy Tucker through coming across her blog "Experience E-Learning", I obtained much good information about instructional design and she also explains some myth and truth about instructional designer. I immediately contacted her by email. Because of her prompt response, I found people on the blogs are really nice and pleased to share the information. I also got several links so that I can meet "virtually" other IDs. I really appreciate for this experience. Although I was not able to absorb those information quickly, I think I got the access to ask for assistance or suggestions. This is my first personal big "discovery".
The second thing is that I found "Diigo", which is a website that offers the database for users to collect and categorize all of information online. Why is it good? Because if I find a good article as future resources, not only can I bookmark it, but also I can highlight the words in color. For the purpose of connecting other people, we have chances to know that who are also interested in this topic. In this way, we may have the interaction with them.
This is my first post. I hope that I can keep moving to develop my blog.