First I'll post the fluffy stuff, and then I'll do the bitchin'.
I'm playing the fuck out of Overlord on the 360. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I am. It's like this weird cross between Fable and Pikmin. When I'm not playing that I'm playing Gears of War on Live, entertaining dreams of quitting my job and becoming a pro gamer on the MLG circuit. Just to give you an idea of how good I am, take a rabid raccoon, tie it up in a burlap sack, beat it with a pillowcase filled with doorknobs, and then set it down on top of the controller. It'd probably get a better score than I.
My project at work submits to Microsoft next month, so we'll probably be pushing into crunch time next week. That means crazy overtime and possibly working the weekends.
Speaking of, I'm a little frustrated on a professional level, lately. I kinda' feel like I've peaked. I don't think I'm going to progress any further, in position or pay, without either an investment of time that I don't really feel like I have to give at my age or without some form of paid apprenticeship or schooling. I could sit in an entry-level position and hope to move up to a producer's salary in something like six years, meaning I'd be in my 30s before I even made it into the department I wanted to work in, and that's without a guarantee that'd ever happen in the first place. Or I can work full time, go to school when I can, and bury myself in debt with student loans. Unless I wanted to go to school full time, I'd be graduated at probably the same time I'd be moving up the ladder without school. A tattoo apprenticeship is my biggest hope, but I don't have the money to pay off an artist to allow me to apprentice with him, much less the savings or finances to live without an income for up to a year. I can try and save up a year's salary plus apprenticeship costs plus start-up fees... which will probably take about the same amount of time. And of the three, that's probably the most difficult. Since it's the one I want most, or course.
Sorry. Don't like to get negative. I'm going to do something. I can't sit in this position for much longer. I just haven't really decided on what, yet, and in the uncertainty I'm feeling kinda' bitchy, I guess.
I'm playing the fuck out of Overlord on the 360. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I am. It's like this weird cross between Fable and Pikmin. When I'm not playing that I'm playing Gears of War on Live, entertaining dreams of quitting my job and becoming a pro gamer on the MLG circuit. Just to give you an idea of how good I am, take a rabid raccoon, tie it up in a burlap sack, beat it with a pillowcase filled with doorknobs, and then set it down on top of the controller. It'd probably get a better score than I.
My project at work submits to Microsoft next month, so we'll probably be pushing into crunch time next week. That means crazy overtime and possibly working the weekends.
Speaking of, I'm a little frustrated on a professional level, lately. I kinda' feel like I've peaked. I don't think I'm going to progress any further, in position or pay, without either an investment of time that I don't really feel like I have to give at my age or without some form of paid apprenticeship or schooling. I could sit in an entry-level position and hope to move up to a producer's salary in something like six years, meaning I'd be in my 30s before I even made it into the department I wanted to work in, and that's without a guarantee that'd ever happen in the first place. Or I can work full time, go to school when I can, and bury myself in debt with student loans. Unless I wanted to go to school full time, I'd be graduated at probably the same time I'd be moving up the ladder without school. A tattoo apprenticeship is my biggest hope, but I don't have the money to pay off an artist to allow me to apprentice with him, much less the savings or finances to live without an income for up to a year. I can try and save up a year's salary plus apprenticeship costs plus start-up fees... which will probably take about the same amount of time. And of the three, that's probably the most difficult. Since it's the one I want most, or course.
Sorry. Don't like to get negative. I'm going to do something. I can't sit in this position for much longer. I just haven't really decided on what, yet, and in the uncertainty I'm feeling kinda' bitchy, I guess.
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P.S. If you go to school to get a 'good enough' job you won't have to worry about your student loans for long, right?