I recently made a tough decision to leave my job of 4 years (a long time when you're only 21) and venture on to something new. In a nut shell, I'm glad I made that decision. Well, I guess you can stop reading this now, that was pretty much the whole point of the blog post. I suppose I'll elaborate...

I worked as a system administrator for a department at Virginia Tech. My supervisor was the systems analyst for the whole department we both shared responsibility of making sure all the machines are in good condition and coming to people's aide when trouble arises. That was pretty much the whole job. We handled problems ranging from major catastrophes to pressing the "Num Lock" key for people when the keypad wasn't working. I am grateful for the experience because I got plenty of practice diagnosing computer problems daily, and I even got to do code the online conference room and equipment reservation system.

But I was starting to feel I had gotten everything I could from the job, and I am at a point in life where I am supposed to be gaining knowledge and experience for "the real world." So my friend Wes told me about an opportunity at BEV Web Support Services working as a web developer. I thought this would be great since I have the most fun when I am creating websites, whether for work or for pleasure. When I would have to create websites at my other jobs (in the IT office and video office), I'd often work on them off the clock because I had so much fun working on them. So, seems like it should be my job, right?

Well so far it's going great. I'm still going through the orientation process to learn how they operate, learning a ton along the way and I actually look forward to coming into work. I'm having a blast figuring out little PHP problems and learning jQuery. I'm interested to see how this feeling progresses throughout my time there, because I still don't know what I want to do after school is over, which is quickly approaching. I was thinking of applying for grad school to get my MBA, just to have it under my belt, plus my tuition would be paid for thanks to the athletics department. But, I'm a bad student, so that likely won't happen. It's not like I'm on academic probation or anything, but probably not Pamplin MBA worthy.

Anyway, that was kind of a life-changing event, so I thought I should update my poor, neglected blog. I'm gonna try to update it more because studies have shown that people actually read this thing for some reason, and while I've blabbered on about myself this time, I'll try to update soon about my favorite iPhone apps or something else more useful.