Rediscovering the passion.

[purplespatula]

"Has anyone considered the possibility that it's just not fun any more?"
-- Don Knuth, Stanford University, October 2006

SIGCSE caught me in an interesting place somewhere between extreme career-angst and profound passion for ongoing CS projects. Unsurprisingly, a number of the sessions I chose to attend had to do with computer science's

Comments

[fotoplasma]

Is that to say you're pretty much resigned to teaching, at this point? Not that I think there's anything wrong with that, but unless some significant changes happen within industry fairly soon, it seems like you're just not going to want to do anything else?

[purplespatula]

I wouldn't call it resignation, really. It's something I love to do, so if there's any way for me to channel that energy constructively at this point, then I'll go for it. The logistics may be a bit complicated until I get a master's, though. We'll see. =) All I know is I'm not going back to Microsoft. At least not for now (who knows).

[fotoplasma]

Aaah. That feels like a much more positive statement than the original entry felt. I think you'll do fine.