Wildleaf

So, I promised a few of my friends that I would try to update this page as often as possible. I would update every day, even, with the current happenings in my mind. This last week I have not lived up to that promise, but I have good reason. I have been working on finding another job in the past few weeks.

What does that mean? Well, I can’t talk about looking for a job on a public medium like a website (though I seriously doubt anyone from Bear would have even come across my little website to find out I was looking elsewhere). I have had an offer from a web development company and I decided to take it.

Ultimately the pay will be less at this new job, especially when you take into consideration the bonus structure, long term raises, and all that stuff. I know this, but I was still looking for a development job where I wouldn’t be sitting on a large trading floor with people who have been working at this company for well over a decade. The offices that line the perimeter of our trading desk environment are a taunting blow to pride, heck even cubicles were beginning to look like an endeavor to achieve.

The environment was not something that I would normally leave a great job for, but the work wasn’t rewarding either. When I turned in my resignation, I believe I said, “Hacking Perl is bad for my soul,” or something like that. I have been working with PHP/HTML/CSS for far too long to simply roll over and work with Perl. I am a programmer, I can code in any language so this isn’t a deal breaker per se, but it definitely not ideal. Heck, if they put me on an ASP.NET or C# project I would have been happy.

But I wasn’t happy. And that is kind of the point of this whole thing. It was a mixed blessing being unhappy. On one side, I came home tired every day and just wanted to melt into the couch, on the other side my mind wandered at work because I was so bored (busy, but still bored). When my mind wandered I happened upon a lot of things that I wanted to write about. A few have already showed their faces around here. Others, however, are much larger projects that will come out in time. Will I lose my Muse when I leave this job? I think not, but I will have to try to capture her as frequently as possible. That means I am going to have to be a bit more purposeful about writing. Novels are not ideas, they are not works of magic, they are stupendous examples of concentration and dedication.

Anyway, you can see a bit of the work this company, that I am about to join, has produced at their webpage. isoCurve seems like it is going to be a lot of good work ahead of me, and I am ready to have that influence on the web that I have fought for, but never had the business minded backing to actually achieve. I am ready to start coding the front ends and back ends. I am ready to start building dynamic systems people can use. I am ready. The question is: Are they?