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Re:Furniture, movers, and entrepreneurship. by Periodic on Thursday January 27, 2011 @06:23PM (#2150049)
I just put in my resignation at my current job earlier this week. I'm just not learning enough here, as I feel most of my time is spent dealing with bureaucracy and working around bad code. Additionally, I don't want my career to be that of an enterprise coder, despite it maybe being some good experience at the moment, so I'm moving on. I'm now looking at some combination of consulting and finishing my masters in CS.

When I mention this to people, most of them are shocked that I don't have another job lined up and don't know exactly what I'm doing next. I think most people are very scared by uncertainty. My wife certainly is. I'm just not going to worry about it as long as I'm moving towards having the career I want to have. Only one of my friends, who wants to start a business of his own, thought that I made a good and brave decision.

I figure as long as I'm taking steps to get where I want to go, I should eventually get somewhere I will enjoy being.

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Re:Furniture, movers, and entrepreneurship. by chr15 on Thursday January 27, 2011 @08:09PM (#2150363)
I recently quit my job too, and am doing the same thing you are. All the people that think you're crazy are saying that because they are very risk averse. A normal life includes getting a job, buying a house, getting married, and having kids. This is considered "progress". Anything that deviates from this is viewed as crazy.

If you want a 9-5 again, there will always be a big corporation to go work for. Surely, they won't fault you for having the courage to do your own thing.

"Ambitious programmers are better off doing their own thing and failing than going to work for a big company." - Paul Graham

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Re:Furniture, movers, and entrepreneurship. by borski on Thursday January 27, 2011 @07:30PM (#2150255)
Trust me, I know the feeling. Everyone around me thinks I'm insane (except my gf, who wants to do it too). Maybe I _am_ insane, but it's a hell of a lot easier to try now than in 10 years.
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