So.. it's basically the end of week three. Tomorrow is friday, and due to the policy at the company... i fully plan on wearing jeans to work tomorrow... with a button down shirt and some dress shoes of course.
Seriously though... my Passion for computers... and IT has returned... I've wanted to learn more and more about technologies i was unaware of as the week went on. It's interesting... because up until a month ago i wanted out of the IT field all together. Something changed this week though. I guess working with Networking techology reignited a passion that i thought was long since gone. Working hands on with the equipment has been very educational and also kinda fun. Learning some of the things that i never knew before and no one had really taken the time to teach me. I mean... you can tell me "do this" but if you dont tell me why... what purpose... or how it affects everything... i really wont take much of an interest. Honestly though... this week has been inspiring... the trainer, if he's any represenation of the people i will be working with... makes me hopeful that once i get out of training i'll be able to make some good friendships with the people within the company.
Tentatively... tomorrow is pay day. Hopefully my direct deposit should have been put through so by this time tomorrow... i'll actually have cash in hand. My first "full" paycheck since mid june... I highly recommend that if anyone decides to take a month off... have more than 5k in the bank because without an income things get hard really quick. With that said though... i have a plan on how i am going to rebuild my savings... and i feel that sometime within the next six months i'll be back to where i was around may time frame.
I am actually interested in networking... which is a shock because when i was at my old company networking seemed "too hard" from the way my boss made it seem. And without having an environment that encouraged learning... i never saw the value in learning anything new. Over the next couple of months i am going to be building a home lab. Basically i am going to buy a couple of network switches... a network router... and a couple of servers so that i can experiment and learn in my downtime... it'd be much more fun to boot up a VM and screw around with it while drinking a beer... than... say... hitting on a bar tender and paying almost triple for the same beer.
I am not yet sure what i am doing tomorrow night or the rest of the weekend for that matter.... I know that Saturday morning i have to take my car in for service... it's long overdue at this point. Sunday i am dedicating to studying... Tomorrow night i have nothing really planned although i shouldnt go overboard because i have to be up early on saturday. I may "uber" tomorrow night for a bit... i know my buddy is playing a show from 9-12 so i may stop in there towards the end of the night to catch the end of the show... I figure if i am out the door by say... 8... that would give me three hours to make some cash with uber... and then an hour to get to the show and catch the last set. Figure leave there by midnight... then head home and sleep. Sounds like a good plan... of course that could change quick on the off chance that one of my other friends wants to hang out... (i.e. my roommate - who likely wont, or my female friend (who also likely wont))... So... yeah... i guess i'm ubering tomorrow evening then catching the end of my buddies set. I dont know how long i'll be tied up waiting for my car to finish... but im scheduled to go there around 10 so hopefully it wont be more than a couple of hours... i am going to load my exam prep books onto my tablet so that i can read them while i am waiting.. Saturday afternoon i am not yet sure what i am doing but i told my uncle that i would see him sometime this weekend so i may stop down in the afternoon for a couple of hours... then from there i'll have a free saturday night. I may check to see what bands are going on in the area because if there is anything good that i am familar with it would be good to get out and actually see people i know outside of the usual cast of characters.
My roommate is on a date tonight so i am just relaxing at home... listening to BPM radio. I have a load of laundry in the wash which i think just finished... I made shaved steak for dinner so i am full from that. I recent bought a stand up punching bag and i hit that for about 15 minutes after dinner... now im here writing this.... That's all i guess.
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