Lots of changes

Yeah so I went to the job meeting. 15 minutes into the meeting I got the job! So I am now a full time employee ( for 6 months at least ) at the xDelia project as a game programmer.

I start tomorrow already, so it is going a million miles an hour at the moment. I am headed over to Germany, Tuesday - Thursday, next week for some work related workshop as well. So lots of things happening indeed.

So now there's lots to do. I need to fill out some papers for the educational part of school and report that I am taking a leave of absence. Then of course there is also contract signing and all matter of other stuff I need to fix with the job (have to hunt down a computer for my room, and then of course have someone tell me where my room is). Not to mention having to report to CSN my leave of absence as well so they'll stop sending me money, but for some reason you need to know how much you will earn, which I don't know yet, before you are allowed to report a leave of absence. Seems kind of silly to me.

Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down

Kinda how it feels. This will pretty much change everything I was doing. No more school for a while of course and iPhone coding will be put on the back-burner again. It is, however, all good. I get what I value most. Experience. With the economy as it is there is no way in Helsinki that any game company would hire someone that has no prior work experience. So this job will be worth a lot for my CV. Hopefully it will be for at least a year. Generally looks better in the resumé than 6 months, I say anyway.

So who's turn is it next now then from Quantum Studios?

Full speed ahead... into nothing?

Yeah so I'm still full up with all the school assignments. My little web server is slowly getting somewhere, if it will be done within a reasonable amount of time is yet unknown.

I recieved what could seem to be a job offer the other day. I don't really know what terms are involved yet (pay, hours, duration, etc) so trying to not get my hopes up. Going to meet up with the person that contacted me on tuesday and discuss it. Hopefully it will be something worthwhile. I really want an excuse to cut down on college for a while.

I really hope it will lead somewhere, but no point in obsessing about it until tuesday.

Back to C and continue with the web server a while longer.

Web server

So I started on the web server assignment. I can tell already that this is gonna take plenty of hours to finish. So the plan is to continue working on that today. Hopefully I will learn something from this that I will actually need some day.

Also got rejected from the job I applied to the other day. Kinda silly that companies won't even consider people with no prior job experience, where will the next Carmack come from then? ( did keendra smile now? ) :p

There should be a law on companies having to offer junior positions if their corporation is larger than x people =P As long as there is senior staff there it shouldn't matter all that much if some of the positions gets filled by post-grads.

No news is good news?

Yeah so I haven't written in a while. Been busy with school so there hasn't been much progress with the "furthering of my career" aspect of my life.

One of the courses I am taking is assignment oriented, so there is no exam, which makes the assignments very time consuming. So I have been working alot at that.

After these few weeks of being back to school I have convinced myself that I really need to try harder to find a job. School is nice and stuff, but I feel ready to make a name for myself and gain proper work experience.

So I updated my portfolio a bit today (just added info about my Bachelor's thesis) and found a job I am going to apply for as well. So the rest of the day will be dedicated to three tasks.

1. Write a cover letter and apply for the job.
2. Start looking at the next assignment.
3. Go to Amiralen (a local shopping center) and do some grocery shopping (Dragons need food apparently).

So yeah, thats about it.

Give me a job!