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This is the first comic in a long time… It also doubles as an entry into poorerthanyou.com’s “Better Together: HP Laptop Bundle Giveaway“. The main concept is that knowledge is “money”. If you educate yourself about the credit system and methods to get out of debt, you will be better off in the long run.

Of course, if you are a keen personal finance person, you might notice some of the personalities that are in the comic ;).

comic, education

I got an e-mail this morning from a site that linked to me.  I got the 99th slot for “100 Best Blogs for Career-Minded Students“. Kinda cool I guess. I jumped to the site and read the little blurb about me.

Heh. Almost completely wrong.

A student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, this blogger is a computer science major with aspirations of being a programmer.

Not a big deal. In fact, I won’t even tell them to correct it, but I am not a computer science major (I am an Information Technology major). I am also an actual programmer. I do have a job, and I code things.

At least they got the RIT part right ;).

However, this e-mail kinda caused me to revisit a lot of things with this blog and with my life. So, lets start with the tagline to the blog…

Code Monkey and Grad Student Extraordinaire

I still like to consider myself a code monkey. So, thats still fine. Also, technically I am still a grad student… but that is only because I haven’t finished my capstone yet, but I am done with my coursework (although they do let me teach every once and a while). So that’s cool, but there is now a lot more.

I now work as a Lead Integration Analyst for the University of Rochester Medical Center (PS: Nothing I say on this blog reflects their opinions, or any other legal mumbo jumbo). This is a new direction for my career - a step away from web development, and a step towards back end programming.

Another major change is now I am a home-owner. What a crazy change! I spend my spare time fixing up the house or cleaning or changing things. It’s a very different process than what I’ve been used to.

Of course, the most major of changes coming up (not here yet!) is that I am a father. In the next few weeks we will have a newborn and that will take up most of our time. I am excited, and so is Jess. It’s going to be one hell of an experience.

So, I guess what it really comes down to is, I am going through a career change. I am no longer “just a student”, I am a Father, Programmer, Academic, and I guess: Adult.

coding, education, life, rambling, technology