So I’ve been working a campus job since school started, and it’s starting to suck. 10 hours a week tethered to a computer in an office. Windows! I’ve been lucky to have previously worked with rails, because so far php is to viciously scratching yourself as rails is to a warm oil massage. It might just be the spaghetti code, maybe it’s the syntax, or maybe specific to the legacy cms that I’m using, I don’t like it.
I worked over the summer with Slantwise Design on rails projects, and they keep finding more work for me. It’s more enjoyable, I work when I find the time, and it pays better.
I’d have way more free time to read, work, think, and hang out around campus (I haven’t read a goddamn book for two months, although I started one today), plus my time would be more flexible if I dropped the php job and did more for slantwise.
I’m starting to regret taking the campus job, but I don’t feel like I should quit it. It’s a drain on my time, but I don’t like the idea of giving up. I took the goddamn job, shouldn’t I have to finish it?
The thing is I’m not really giving up, I’m moving on to bigger and better things. PHP is nice, but rails is kick ass. I’d rather be really good with ruby then deece in both it and php. But I still can’t decide whether or not I should up and quit.
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