I had some time today, split between projects at work and home, to think about how I got here. What single inflection point could have contributed the greatest to my current vector? My mother takes some of the credit. Aside from the standard keep-me-alive stuff, the greatest thing she did for me was give me …
Tag Archives: career
Warming Trends
Wow, yeah. I was just reading a post from June 1999 where I was bemoaning my newfound gainful unemployment. In it, I had this wonderful gem: I would love to make a career out of my life-long hobby, computer science, and get paid for it. I’d be much happier. There’s a lot to be said …
Interstitium
My tenure at Hostway has come to an end. Long live Hostway. I put in my two weeks notice, then walked away a free man yesterday afternoon. It was a long, tangled, messy 4 years, 5 months, 3 weeks. I learned a lot while there, but the biggest lesson of them all is that I …
Rocks and Hard Times
I feel it necessary to mention it here, for the sake of those of you who don’t regularly see me in my everyday life, that my job is at risk of not existing by the end of this week. For those who may not know, I work at AMD, have been there over 5 1/2 …
Roller Coaster
Technically, I am in-between jobs. As of Thursday, I am no longer a contractor, and as of tomorrow, I will be a full employee. And it’s about time. But not without a thrillride, first. See, on Tuesday, the manager responsible for my conversion got a call from Human Resources, and the message was to walk …