Mahoneyt^.[blog]

Week six of Winter quarter is coming to a close. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday about how we’d rather being working than in school. Even if the hours are longer in the workforce, you don’t have to sit through hours of boring classes titled “Needs Assessment” and “Human-Computer Interaction II – Interface Design” (apologies to Bryan and Rick). And, when you go home from work, you’re finished with it! You don’t need to think about doing assignments outside of work which will be due the next day, graded, and reflect on your performance as an employee. In that sense, perhaps it’s the homework that I don’t like. I think that apart from that, working full time gave weekly retribution in the form of a paycheck and that is much more satisfying than the promise of an eventual undergraduate degree in Information Technology.

Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s childish to think in terms of immediate rewards but sometimes the present is your only focus. Thinking too much about your future is futile.

Recently, I’ve discovered that no matter how much time, money, patience, hope, and support you lend, some things are just simply not in your realm of control.

Joe and I are actively working on getting our company off of the ground. Blue Door Development, Inc. — as it has comne to be called — will soon actually be incorporated and we are already starting to develop for our first project. It’s hush-hush until we’re actually incorporated though.
If you’re reading this and have any sort of web scripting, design, database experience or otherwise, please don’t hesitate to send a résumé to thom@bluedoordev.com.

While everyone else from my high school class is finished with school for the year, I’m still working hard on final projects, “studying” for finals, and writing papers. Well, tomorrow I present my Programming III final project with Jason and then I’m officially finished for the year. Freshman year of college was a larger challenge than I could have ever imagined, but in hindsight it was ultimately the most enjoyable year of school I’ve ever had. The people that you meet and the coursework that you do doesn’t compare to the mundane tasks of high school.
Also, I’ve officially started my new job at the Information & Technology Services department on campus. The work environment is very professional and yet extremely laid back at the same time. I like the work I am doing and I have met a lot of very knowledgeable people even just two weeks in. I will be spending the majority of my summer on campus (40 hour work weeks) working for ITS so I suppose it’s only suitable to like the people I’m with. I guess the days of part-time work are over.