No More School
2010-12-16 23:08:40
Well I just couldn't do it anymore. As the semester drew closer to the end I found myself caring less and less about school, and having no motivation to continue on with school. My classes were a growing disappointment, and I figure with them being as worthless as they were this last semester I can spend $30 on a book instead of $600 on a class. Oh, and I'll learn more from the book. It's a little bit of a risk career-wise, but there comes a point where you just don't care anymore. I'll take the chance and bust my butt on increasing my skills and work experience, and trust that between God's provision and my work experience, I'll be able to find jobs in the future when I need them. Granted, I'd stay with the company that I'm at right now for years if they'll have me, but it's always good to cover your backside.
I started building an updated content management system for this page, as well as my development site, but work has kept me challenged enough that when I come home at night I don't want to do anything that requires problem solving or thinking hard. That's not all bad though. It lets me keep work at work, which is something that I definitely need to do.
The mystery of homework
2010-09-05 18:40:28
How is it that I wanted to spend a good chunk of my weekend geekin' out on learning new tech stuff, and yet the thought of doing homework, which is all relevant for my future, is completely dreadful to me. I set up a server in our new apartment. I manually installed my company's system monitoring software on this, as well as turning it into a web server. I had a blast doing all of that, and I want to read up and learn how to do more, but I have this "required" learning that I need to do, and that hangs over my head for some reason. I guess the things I'm most passionate about become self-revealing after a while, because there are things that excite me, and things that drain me. I could do PHP development and mess around with Linux every single day I think, but even though I was excited about what I would be learning in my two web programming classes this fall, so far they're not nearly as interesting as I thought they would be. I'm not discouraged though, I just think I'm getting a clearer idea of where my passions are at. Fortunately for me, the things I get to do for work are the very things I'm most passionate about. Talk about a blessing.
Almost there....
2010-07-17 00:45:53
5 hours of focused programming and homeworking, and I've gone one of my 3 classes down. Praise God. * weeks doesn't seem like a long time, and it's really not, but MAN it's been full. I'm a week away from finishing everything else up as well, so I'm almost to the point where I can just work and then come home and night and be with my wife and son. Sounds heavenly... : )
Survival
2010-07-08 23:43:54
I'm still here, and I'm still breathing. I've got less than two weeks left in my classes, and it'll be a huge relief when they're all done.
Can I just say that I love my new job?? Well, I love my new job. It's the perfect situation for where I'm at, because even though I feel like a moron at least half of the time, I'm allowed to be because part of my job is to write documentation for other people like me. I'm learning a ton, and it pushes me every single day, which is exactly what I need. Life is good, it's just a little insane right now.
Summer School
2010-06-27 22:48:31
I'm starting to realize why very few people sign up to take 3 classes during summer term. What a whirlwind! And not in a good way either. The classes I want to spend more time on and learn more basically get put on the backburner because their due dates are flexible, while my third class takes the most time and effort, and I'm the least interested in. I'm about halfway done though, so that's good. Life is pretty chaotic right now though. I'm pretty exhausted tonight, and it's Sunday night. That's not such a good sign. I'm hoping I hit less roadblocks this week at work and complete a few more projects. I am looking forward to work tomorrow though, which is a blessing. I know it won't always be that way, but for now I'm so thankful for that job, and I look forward to the day where I can stand on my own two feet with it.
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