| go read my vox again. I just made a post that I know people might disagree with and I like debate and opinions...so go share yours.
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| you all need to move to Vox. It makes Xanga look like a Model T. I have 4 invites left and I know that at 5 invites a person we could probably move the entire Xanga group to Vox.
hit me up if you want an invite...and believe me...you do.
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| Jon Shell sold me on this Vox thing...and I didn't even have to talk about it with him.
I am pretty sure I'm moving over there...as soon as I figure out if I have any invites I might offer those up too...check me out over there for now:
http://iammrwright.vox.com/
bye.
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| So it's been awhile.
I've been out of touch with the world for awhile and it feels weird. I live an hour from where I work so I get up at 5 a.m. every day, drive into work, get home about 5:30 or 6 p.m. and since I go to bed by 9...I pretty much do nothing every night of the week. Then when the weekend rolls around I find myself so exhausted that I just don't want to leave the house and drive somewhere. After 2 days of denying that the outside world exists...it's time to go back to work again.
So yeah...life is far from hectic for me...but I still can't find the time to do anything.
On the subject of jobs, I've had 2 interviews at a large company (Maritz) that is much closer to my house AND pays about $13k more a year. After the 2nd interview the guy who would be my boss told me that he "really wanted to get me on the team" and asked "how soon can you start?"...it's now been almost 2 weeks and I haven't heard a thing from them. That's incredibly frustrating.
On top of that, my current boss has officially put in his 2 weeks notice which prompted the owner of the company to ask each Software Developer individually if they were planning on leaving. I told him I wasn't sure. If I do get the offer from Maritz I have a tough choice ahead of me. On the one hand I have a company that I already know, that has a laid back environment (I can wear shorts and a tshirt to work...in a corporate environment that is huge) that also has a history of sharing HUGE profits with its employees. The last time this company had big sales the low people in the company got $100,000 bonuses. The Vice President got $2.5 million. On the other hand this same company hasn't sold its product in 2 years. It also is officially in debt for the first time ever (which is why sharing profits with your employees can be a bad thing...imagine if that money had stayed with the company instead) and has taken loans for the first time. It is also run by idiots. The people in charge of this company are either stupid, childish, lazy or just plain jackasses. There are times when I look at the 40 to 60 year old managers of this company and wonder if they ever mentally got out of junior high. There is one manager who literally refuses to look another one in the eye or say a word to him because of a disagreement they had in the past. If they pass in the hallway he will literally look over the other guys head as if he doesn't see him.
Then there's Maritz. It's a solid job that lets me work with better technologies...but it's also a total corporate environment. I'm going to have to go to more meetings, do more paperwork, work more weekends and have the possibility of getting laid off (which isn't really a danger at the small company I work at now). There is also the guilt I would feel for leaving this company right now. There are 4 Developers here and our entire company is based around the Developers...so if any 1 of us leaves it is a HUGE hit. If I leave I'm almost positive that at least 1 other Developer will leave as well which would pretty much shut this company down. If that happens then there are 30 people who will be looking for jobs because the Developers failed them.
Also...I miss my dad.
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| www.zefrank.com
Drew Vedenhaupt first showed me this website...it is awesomes.
check out The Show:
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/
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