Time to update.
Last week was a business trip. Cross country red-eye flight. Yuck! I missed a pile of class for it. It was unfortunately a condition of further employment. Of course, they didnt phrase it that way but it would have been tantamount to quitting to refuse to go.
Anyway, now Im frantically trying to catch up on the homework, etc. Its really not that bad but I have midterms coming up and dont want to be caught flat-footed.
There are so many projects that I want to work on but I have no time. I cant wait until I get a little relief from working full time and going to school about 2/3rds time. It pretty much sucks. I feel like I have so little time that, for most of my classes, I retain the information just long enough to pass the next test.
Anyway, my wife is really considerate. She knows Im under a lot of stress, so what does she want for Mothers Day? She wants me to make her motorcycle road-worthy again. Thats so easy, it needs an oil change, plugs, a new battery, and the gas tank drained. The parts trip was 10 minutes actual store time. And, get this; she really doesnt care if the bike is ready until next week (after midterms). The actual work will be about 30 minutes. Compared to the agonizing over what to get her, this is a walk in the park and she knows it. Shes just taking a stressor out of my life. Im a lucky guy.
Anyway, in other news, I have a job interview tomorrow. I dont want to go. For the most part, the folks Im working for now have been good to me but Im sorta doing it as a favor. Its a startup. I dont want to surrender my life (and school) to a startup right now no matter how successful it might be.
I wrote up a bunch of stuff about the NPV of the expected value of taking a job with the startup, trying to decide if there was really a deal zone with them. The long and short of it is that there really isnt. Ill leave out the gory calculations.
Anyway, Ive rambled enough.
Last week was a business trip. Cross country red-eye flight. Yuck! I missed a pile of class for it. It was unfortunately a condition of further employment. Of course, they didnt phrase it that way but it would have been tantamount to quitting to refuse to go.
Anyway, now Im frantically trying to catch up on the homework, etc. Its really not that bad but I have midterms coming up and dont want to be caught flat-footed.
There are so many projects that I want to work on but I have no time. I cant wait until I get a little relief from working full time and going to school about 2/3rds time. It pretty much sucks. I feel like I have so little time that, for most of my classes, I retain the information just long enough to pass the next test.
Anyway, my wife is really considerate. She knows Im under a lot of stress, so what does she want for Mothers Day? She wants me to make her motorcycle road-worthy again. Thats so easy, it needs an oil change, plugs, a new battery, and the gas tank drained. The parts trip was 10 minutes actual store time. And, get this; she really doesnt care if the bike is ready until next week (after midterms). The actual work will be about 30 minutes. Compared to the agonizing over what to get her, this is a walk in the park and she knows it. Shes just taking a stressor out of my life. Im a lucky guy.
Anyway, in other news, I have a job interview tomorrow. I dont want to go. For the most part, the folks Im working for now have been good to me but Im sorta doing it as a favor. Its a startup. I dont want to surrender my life (and school) to a startup right now no matter how successful it might be.
I wrote up a bunch of stuff about the NPV of the expected value of taking a job with the startup, trying to decide if there was really a deal zone with them. The long and short of it is that there really isnt. Ill leave out the gory calculations.
Anyway, Ive rambled enough.