[geeks] Yuppie Hell

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:37:49AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On April 11, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > > As of Monday, I have officially signed up to graduate somewhere in the
> > > > vicinity of the 20th of December (either the 15th or the 22nd I believe).  
> > > > And, to top it off, I managed to rig it so that next fall, I'm only going to 
> > > > be part time.  *woot*
> > > 
> > >   So you'll officially join us in the Real World(tm) around xmas of
> > > this year?  For good?  For real?
> > 
> > For awhile at least.  Depending on how things go, grad. school is a strong
> > possibility.  I'd rather take several years off, then work on grad school,
> > but if I can't find a tolerable job, I'll probably go sooner.
> 
>   Grad school...WHY?  School is supposed to *prepare* you for life.  Not
> substitute for it.
> 
>   Of course, what you do with your life is none of my business, and I'm
> clearly out of place by even mentioning it...but the idea of you going
> to grad school sounds to me like an unthinkable waste of material.

All I know is I don't want to be an admin.  I don't want to write test
reporting software, shipment tracking software, insurance reporting and
analysis software, web sites, sales, and sort of reporting, etc, for the
rest of my life.  A little here and there is fine, but day in and out 
forever... Shudder.

If not doing that means grad school, so be it.  If it means going into debt
to buy the gear to open a production studio and focus on growing that business
to the size of supporting custom programming, that could work also.

Or, maybe I'll luck out and actually find a cool job.  I have one lead...

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd