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jfbSo, yeah, I turned down the Microsoft offer. Many pros, many cons, but in the end I think I just needed a break, and knew that going to Microsoft wouldn't be one.
I'm glad finally to have made the decision, and I think I made it right, but as with all my decisions, I'm filled with ambivalence about it. Mostly, I will really miss working with most of the people I've been working with. I took this job mostly as an opportunity to work with really good people, and it's been nice.
I'm also worried by uncertainty about what the future will bring, although, really, uncertainty was part of the goal.
Here's my plan for the near future, for those of you I haven't yet bored with it: I expect to be employed by PlaceWare through the end of June, possibly July, I'm not sure what their plans are. When that's over, I'm not going to look for a new job for a while.
While unemployed, I plan to take advantage of my free time to explore music more deeply than I've been able to in my free time. I want to do more writing, recording, and performing. I want to explore venues in the greater bay area, and, I hope, make some excursions up and down the Pacific states. I have a wedding to go to in September in North Carolina; I hope at least to play some places on the east coast, and possibly make a cross-country road trip of it.
I intend to lose money hand over fist.
I'm not "changing careers." I expect to get back into the software industry, or at least to start trying, in a matter of months (probably 3-6). But my hope is to use my time off to gather more songs, recordings, and experience, so that when I go back to being a part-time musician, I'll have all of that background to draw on.
So yeah, that's the plan. Of course, gang aft agley.
I'm glad finally to have made the decision, and I think I made it right, but as with all my decisions, I'm filled with ambivalence about it. Mostly, I will really miss working with most of the people I've been working with. I took this job mostly as an opportunity to work with really good people, and it's been nice.
I'm also worried by uncertainty about what the future will bring, although, really, uncertainty was part of the goal.
Here's my plan for the near future, for those of you I haven't yet bored with it: I expect to be employed by PlaceWare through the end of June, possibly July, I'm not sure what their plans are. When that's over, I'm not going to look for a new job for a while.
While unemployed, I plan to take advantage of my free time to explore music more deeply than I've been able to in my free time. I want to do more writing, recording, and performing. I want to explore venues in the greater bay area, and, I hope, make some excursions up and down the Pacific states. I have a wedding to go to in September in North Carolina; I hope at least to play some places on the east coast, and possibly make a cross-country road trip of it.
I intend to lose money hand over fist.
I'm not "changing careers." I expect to get back into the software industry, or at least to start trying, in a matter of months (probably 3-6). But my hope is to use my time off to gather more songs, recordings, and experience, so that when I go back to being a part-time musician, I'll have all of that background to draw on.
So yeah, that's the plan. Of course, gang aft agley.
