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I think I’ve known this for a long long time, but today it’s been present in every way possible. I’m ready for a career change. No no, I’m still a geek and the computer industry will always be my passion. I’ve been doing tech support since 1998 and at this point in the game, I’m completely burnt out. It’s just not what I want to be doing. My focus in IT has always been development and programming and with school I’m making the necessary steps to get to that point but more then ever I want to find an entry-level position in that field. Something to get my foot in the door, and eventually my life long dream of being a Software Engineer at Google.

So, I’m going to start looking for something. The tricky part is the time in between paychecks that might be hard, but at the same time, we just got our tax money back and we threw that into savings and paid off our credit card.

Baby steps are always hard for me. I always want every thing to happen fast but like anything big, it’s a slow process especially to work toward the end goal.

I have the next week off from school which is a nice change but I’ve been filling up my extra time with WoW which might not be the best idea.

I was going to have a BBQ this Friday with all the people from work, but I’m starting to second guess that and since I haven’t advertised it I might just forget it all together. I overheard a work friend today putting tech support down and it just put a bad taste in my mouth since he’s been a friend for years. In fact, I’m the one that trained him when he first came to the company. I guess you can’t always trust every one.

If I were living in my dreams right now, working at Google then I would be doing this today:

I’m still fighting off a head-cold and last night the stomach bug reared it’s ugly head yet again. I can’t afford to take anymore time off work so I’m trying to work through it best I can. I had a really hard time sleeping last night. I think I finally nodded off around 5:30am … I need a serious nap!

The good news is I got my taxes done last night. This is quite an accomplishment for me actually because it’s the first time I did my taxes by myself (or without having someone do them for me). I used Turbo Tax which was easy as pie. I highly recommend it. Turbo Tax will ask you all the questions and you click on all the answers and walla! Your tax return is e-filed and 7-14 days later your refund will be directly deposited in your back account. I wish I would have done my taxes two weeks ago!

That’s right … Apple is the third most valuable according to Apple shares.

Of course, Microsoft and Google take the #1 and #2 spots (yay Google!).

This makes me smile for more reasons than one