I suppose it's time for an update...

First, I'd like to state the obvious: "Well, it's been a while since I've made a post on here..." Now that I've gotten that out of the way, on to the update.

It's been a hectic few months. I wound up finding a job which I actually like (most of the time), doing what I actually wanted to do with my life. Shocking! I'm an in-house web developer for a company that will remain nameless, because I don't particularly want my coworkers to find this blog.

One thing I will say, though, is that the average age of the company's employees is shockingly low, and the work environment has a strange frat-house feel to it. And not in a particularly pleasant way (at least in my humble opinion). Basically, it's like being back in high school, with most of the company being the "cool jock" crowd, and IT being the "basement-dwelling D&D player" crowd. Except we enable the "cool jocks" to earn a living, so they don't give us wedgies.

That aside, I enjoy the actual work, I get along well with my fellow IT-ers (and a few of the older non-IT staff members), and I don't really have to interact with the employees who think we're lowly geeks. Plus I can work from home when I want/need to, and I get as much overtime as my little heart desires. Long-term, I'm not sure how permanent it's going to be, but for the next year or two it's exactly what I want and need.

Next week classes start back up for me, and to be honest, I'm dreading it. Full-time job + half-time academics = tired, no matter how often I can work from home. Beyond that, I just feel emotionally and mentally done with school. I've been at it 5 years. I've got my foot in the door of the industry I was hoping to enter. And at this point, I've gained about as much as I can from theoretical education -- at least for the time being.

I'm also nervous that it's going to interfere with my job. Like I said, it's not perfect, but I do enjoy it, and it pays the bills.

Time will tell, I guess.