It’s been almost half my life now since I first felt this odd rush for knowledge. That sensation of absolute power once you acquire a new piece of knowledge that will forever change the way you are. I’m not sure why that happens. I just know that I love it.
And now it’s beginning to yield material results. Unfortunately, yes, I admit it. I like money. I like buying things. And now I was offered a new job, with a wider range of responsibilities and far better salary. I’m taking it, though I’ll greatly miss my current work team. Even though it’s been a month since I last saw them, I still have a lot of fun with them. I had an awesome boss that I’m not sure I’ll ever have again. A true digital warrior, he let me work the way I liked the best, knowing of course it would be the way I would achieve top productivity/performance/quality.
I was offered a job that’s more or less what he currently does for my current company. I’m quite excited about it. That same rush for knowledge I usually feel when fighting with a new programming language, a framework or anything big enough, I’m now feeling it for a job. I hope it will be worth it. Only time will tell.
On the other hand, I found it quite surprising to acknowledge that I can actually do a lot of things. I’ve been told a few thousand times that I’m quite capable, but that I should trust more of my abilities. I guess that was right. And it sounds great.
I’m so sorry for not posting more often. I just finished a new Arch Linux installation that ended up being a very nice system. I’ll post it this weekend, as I’ll do it once more, but with a hand-compiled kernel. I really want top speed. It’s an old computer again, but hell, it’s way faster than my previous computer and I can run XFCE 4 with a ton of nifty, shiny things atop.
I love Arch Linux. Every system should be like it. It simply lets you do whatever you want. If it fails, it’s your fault, not the system’s. It even made me think of changing my Macbook for a PC dual-booted with Windows 7 (or Windows 8, it’s coming this year!) and Arch Linux. It’s just that I love very much my Macbook and I’m not sure that I could leave her. She’s such a noble computer. I’ve worked a lot with her for the last two years and my battery still holds yields around 3 hours of continuous work, my keyboard is in a good state still, the trackpad seems almost new. It only has a couple of cracks in the screen’s joint which I think were my fault.
Quite awesome hardware. And I can run Windows 7 whenever I want, so I can develop in any operative system with any technology currently available. I love it so much. I don’t really know if I could leave her. Unless she totally broke down, it’s going to be quite hard to get a new laptop.
So I wrote another piece of post I don’t really know what means. Whatever. I really wanted to write once more. I like it a lot. Time to plan which posts I’m about to write.
