Last year at this time, I announced that I just taken a new job with a small IT consulting company in Springfield. So it’s almost been a whole year. I didn’t start my current job until October because I took a small vacation to Daytona Florida to visit B.
It was a big move. The past year I had been working in the truss and home planning design business. I had gone from only knowing that there were studs behind drywall to that you need a 4″ lip on a foundation to support a brick wall on a house, and if you were going to have the same size overhang over walls with siding and brick you were going to need to cantilever the trusses another 4″.
One of my first examples of a 3D elevation.
One of the tougher ones I did. This was for a house that was being built. They wanted a good idea of what it would look like with different building materials. I got to walk in this house - impressive.
Obviously my talents were improving over time. When the opportunity to enter a different career field came up I was seriously at a cross roads. I had my position where I put in 3/4 of a year training myself on designing and building homes, but I had also invested 5 years in school and got a BS in Computer Sceince. I picked the brains of many my close friends and family members. It pretty much came down to “You’ll know what to do.”
My inner-geek obviously took over, and I took the job in the IT field.
A year later, today, I ran into my old boss. He’s doing well for himself and the company has doubled in size after a partnership with another company shortly after I left. He was telling me about all the new technology and tools they had. I am a sucker for new toys (aka tools for the job).
I do miss doing the home design. Okay, I really just miss doing the 3D elevations. But I am glad where I am at right now, because of all the stuff I learned building houses, I learned that much more tinkering with $15K servers. In reality, it’s all about being happy and learning something new.
You have all the signs of having fully entered adulthood. There’s no turning back. But, that doesn’t mean you can’t let your hair down and go wild when the need be. Congratulations on a well-balanced life. *snort*
(I missed your original announcement since I didn’t start reading your blog until January of this year. I can’t believe it took me that long.)
Say it ain’t so!
Real World jobs suck. I’d give anything to be 18 again, working at the grocery store in Pawnee and living with ma and pa. My car payment was only $98 a month back then, and gas was around $1.00 a gallon. Ahhhhh, the good ole days.
To be that young again.