6 days ’til the fun begins
This coming Friday is my last day at my full time job. Sunday I’ll be flying back to Philadelphia, moving in to a new apartment Monday, and starting fall term of my senior year at Drexel University a week later. Some time after I arrive, my computer and the rest of my belongings should arrive by UPS so I can get back to work.
But that’s not the fun part. The fun part is being able to resume projects left off 6 months ago, and start all the new ones I’ve been thinking about. I’ll no longer be bound by the employment contract’s restrictions on what work I can do on the side, so I’ll have free reign to write new code again. I promise some more interesting projects to blog about, and some new features for W3Counter. I’m not talking about exporting to Excel — blah, what a bad monetization plan — although I’ll still do that too.
Fall should be a good quarter. I’ll be taking as many credits as Drexel lets me register for, as I usually do — might as well get as much as I can for the overpriced tuition. Classes this term:
- Optimization Theory
- Applied Symbolic Computation
- Computational Photography
- Computer Graphics
- Senior Design Workshop
- Law of Business Organizations
That should finish out my math minor if I can survive those classes. Hopefully the senior project won’t eat up too much of the long weekends — I scheduled all this between Mondays and Thursdays. All the graphics courses are just a fun side-track. They sound interesting. I’ve finished my concentration in algorithms already.
At some point I’ll have to think about what grad schools I’m interested in, take the GRE, and figure out if I can really afford to do that full time. I think I can do it without taking any loans. That is exactly what owning a business is all about to me — being able to work just enough hours to support the desired lifestyle.
Congrats and good luck!
Congrats Dan – have a safe trip back.
Good luck Dan!
sara says (10:10 PM):
hey
ed says (10:10 PM):
hey
sara says (10:10 PM):
one sec
let me find the nasty shot
ed says (10:10 PM):
if you didn’t get my last pm i said that I bet it’s not as bad as the shit I PM Vinnie.
sara says (10:11 PM):
oh ed
you dont know me very well
here you go
http://quick.pronhoster.com/67822
ed says (10:11 PM):
oooh that IS fucking nasty
i don’t like that shit
sara says (10:11 PM):
yeah
sara says (10:12 PM):
well i have no problem with normal amounts and normal qality
but that looked disgusting
i had to turn my head
ed says (10:12 PM):
i don’t even like seeing normal amounts
sara says (10:12 PM):
i showed my husband and he couldnt look at it
b/c of how yucky it looked
i mean
her eyes are open
and she is looking through the goo
ed says (10:13 PM):
i actually think cumming on chicks faces is degrading..can you believe that? I really do. I wouldn’t do that to any chick unless she was a whore…..hold on…let me see if i find find the pic i PM’d to Vinnie a while ago
sara says (10:13 PM):
k
well what if the chick likes thta?
sara says (10:14 PM):
and it is degrading
but some women like to be degraded
ed says (10:14 PM):
http://www.consumptionjunction.com/content/detail.asp?ID=52447
sara says (10:14 PM):
oh ive seen that one
believe it or not
ed says (10:14 PM):
i still think its nasty even if she likes it
sara says (10:14 PM):
so noble of you
ed says (10:15 PM):
not really…i’m just sort of empathic i guess
even though i hate to admit it
yeah tubgirl
sara says (10:15 PM):
yesss
see i can look at thta
ed says (10:15 PM):
she friend’s of goatse
sara says (10:15 PM):
even though its so foul
but i cant look at the other
ed says (10:15 PM):
me too
taht don’t bother me at all
i wouldn’t wanna smell it though
sara says (10:15 PM):
oh and i saw the smallest penis ive ever seen before
sara says (10:16 PM):
me neither
and this pronhoster site is my friends
which is why i was there
ed says (10:16 PM):
that wasn’t when you had that stomach flu is it?
sara says (10:16 PM):
no no
it wasnt me
i assure you
ed says (10:17 PM):
u sell your house?
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u sell your house?
So is this a bittersweet feeling? Leaving a company that you seemingly enjoyed the atmosphere to, but welcoming the life you truly feel you want… Or has it all sunk in and you know you’re better off and will be happier making your own rules from here on out? Or do you take it a day at a time?
In any case, I wish you the best!
On an unrelated note, congratulations for being mentioned in Smashing Magazine!
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/09/11/creative-favicons-tiny-artwork/
Eh… I have no idea… The main reason I don’t take a job is that trading one salary for another doesn’t make sense. *Right now*, I can make as much with just an hour a day of support/maintenance as I’d make working a 9-5 job, so trading that for the 8 hour days doesn’t make sense. I can’t predict the future — I can’t see if it’s just transient and will evaporate away in a few years as the advertising market changes.
If I didn’t think I’d easily find a job if that happens, I wouldn’t have chosen this. But it seems like the job market is very good for developers, and that it’s going to be good for a long time as the retiring rate is outpacing the graduation rate.
Anyway… back to classes. I still have a $75 gift certificate to a local mall to spend before I leave, but I couldn’t find anything I wanted :<
Thanks for the link, I never would’ve known about that.
yay