Job Hunting

I am officially in full job hunting mode.  Just like everybody else, I regularly scan the Craigslist job listings and I just sent my information to a recruiter.  And I am trying not to be too discriminating.  If I find a good part-time position, I'll work on games part time.  If I find a full-time position, I'll work on open source games as a hobby. If finding a job eludes me, I'll work on cool stuff of my own full-time. Sweet! Oh, wait. I need a salary.  The lucky thing is that the few jobs out there are so absolutely impossible to get that I am guaranteed to work on something interesting if I make it.  Yes, that is a good thing. That is just how delusional I am :). To round it up, I am researching how to start my own business.  Pursuing the American Dream is a beautiful idea, but it looks 90 degrees uphill from here.  Still, I believe that anything is possible. What will be, will be. I keep repeating in my head what has become my new mantra: Try your best, then leave it to fate and stop worrying.

There does not seem to be enough work for me to do in my part-time gig with my old company, so I am mostly spending my time getting my job search organized and working on a couple of web site ideas that I have had for a while, trying to make them finally a reality and get some experience with technologies that I have not used at work.  Non computer geek types may find this hard to believe, but writing code is a great therapy for people like me.  It cures anything.   The trick is getting organized enough to finish your project or current task, which is hard when you have too many goals and too many ideas fighting for your brain time.  But once something is finished and works... ahhhhhh!!!! Best feeling. Ever.  Add a good dose of learning new, interesting things, and you reach pure bliss.  Since I am not sure what direction I will be following, focusing is getting tricky.  I need to work on that.  More than ever, wish me luck! Please!