The end of an era

Well, this is it. My first day without having to think about working. It’s quite a scary concept really after being involved with the staff at Jelsoft for 4 years (18 months at vBulletin.org and 2.5 years at vBulletin.com).

In some ways I’m sad to have left, but in other ways I’m happy. I’ve really enjoyed my time there on the whole, but events over the last 6-8 months teamed with my poor health led to me having to leave. At the end of the day, my health always comes first. I’m just sad that it actually got to this point.

Looking to the future, I have no idea what I am going to do, but it likely involves going back to university next year unless something else comes up. I was enjoying going to uni even though I wasn’t really learning anything, until things changed and I started having to pay fees to go and not learn. That was when I gave up and dropped out. It was good for meeting people though and I quite enjoyed the whole experience. I just laughed at how easy the work was. I guess the fact that I have been dealing with code for such a long time made it so easy for me and explained why I had some interested debates with my tutors about the fact that they were teaching HTML 4.0 when the current standards are HTML 4.01 or even better XHTML.