Well here we are, Wednesday night Nov 19, 2008... I have come to the realization that I need to do something with my life. Sure, I've thought it before, but it always gets pushed to the back on my mind and other things take priority, mainly trying to live with what I've got currently.
This week I realized that I hate my job, and in order to get a job, or career, that I do enjoy I am going to have to go back to school... Great! I haven't been in an actual class for over 6 years now! When I graduated High School I immediately started at the University of Utah with a major of electronic engineering; Huge Mistake! I went for two full semesters, took the summer off, then returned and made it through a third semester. At that point I realized that I didn't want anything to do with electronic engineering, and I had just wasted almost two years of my life, and around $5,000... Awesome... I took a few years off of school and then a buddy of mine found this great looking training school for computer networking. It sounded really good, and showed that it had been around for a long time, the only drawback was the $18,000 tuition. The course was supposed to last 9 months, and in that time I would get certified to work at a high paid network specialist. My friend and I both bit, and for a while it was actually pretty nice. I lived with my parents at the time so I was able to pay my loan about $500 a month, instead of paying rent, which helped me to get the whole damn student loan paid off much faster... the problem... After 5 months of class I was certified with all the basic stuff, and with those certs i could probably get a job that paid about $10 an hour, all that was left was the big certs... the ones that qualified me for the big bucks.. I get ready to go to school one day, drive there, go up to the building... the door was locked! I found this strange so I started calling the people that ran the joint, and couldn't get a hold of anyone.
Long story short, they claimed bankruptcy... they already had my 18 grand, because it was a loan, and there wasn't then, or isn't know a god damn thing I could do about it. I had accomplished jack-shit, paid way more money that I had, and had nothing to show for it.
Now its been years, and I know that I can't start at a new job for even close to what I make now, which sickens me because I don't make very good money.
SO the plan is to find a school I can go to for graphic/game design... I want to make video games.. hell I love playing them, it would be freakin sweet if I could be a part of making one.
Ok sorry about all that but I had to vent, and thought this would be a good place to put it.
Idlewild--
Finished the book last night. I started reading while on breaks at work yesterday and got to a point in the book where I just didn't want to put it down! It really is Matrixish ( i know that's not a word, but its the closest thing to a word that I could use to describe this book.) The virtual school I mentioned earlier turns out to be a virtual world inside of a virtual world... very strange. What happens is that there is this plague "black-ep" that is spreading around the world very rapidly, and the human race pretty much resigns itself to extinction, until a company comes up with a plan. They create babies that grow up their entire lives in huge "vaultish" buildings, plugged into this virtual world, inside that virtual world they grow up and are sent to a virtual school. All of this is to train them to research and destroy the virus when they become 21. On their 21st birthday the students are supposed to "graduate" the virtual school, and when they get unplugged there are videos waiting for them to explain the whole situation. However things to horribly wrong as one students manages his way to hacking himself out of all of it early, and decides he wants to be sole savior of the earth and tries to kill the other students while they are still plugged in.
JUST IN CASE you were thinking of reading this book I won't spoil the ending, but I have to say that after around page 100 the book is a breeze. I really enjoyed it and would actually recommend it.
Thomas - Idlewild Complete
PS Somer has given me a new reading assignment for double points. This one is called "Josie and Jack." I'll probably start on it tonight.
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I have been at that point in my life, and I recommend you do it now, when you are young, have no kids, and can live like a starving student! Good luck finding something you love! Somer gave me a book to read also-Potato Girl, don't tell her, I've only read about 20 pages, but I am committed to finishing it. Thanks to Somer for keeping us all well read!
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