Every journey begins with a single step. Oh c'mon, can you get any more cliché than that?
Well, perhaps so, but who cares?
I'm going to take you on a journey, and please...no, really, please...allow me to take myself on this wicked trip as well. Make some room for me! It will be an excursion that may take you deep into my soul, my mind, but most importantly it will take you to Málaga, Spain (Geek remark: note the accent mark, I learned to do it on my Mac) by next September, assuming that everything goes well. And yes, I know that assumption is the mother of all fuckups.
The building on the left can be found right smack in the center of the city I currently reside in, which is Warsaw, Poland. If I were in charge, which obviously I am not, I'd repaint it or demolish it. This lackluster edifice needs to go. Send it to the moon for all I care.
Okay, enough ranting. I actually like Warsaw, and I think this might be a great place to live in a couple of years when real estate prices go down (mark my words, they will go down) and wages go up. Until then, I'm off to another place where wages are relatively low, but then again so are real estate prices. I apologize for the devastating consequences this comparison may have on Warsaw's image, but I have to somehow make myself feel even better about moving, right?
Anyway, the move to España is not the only thing that I'm changing in my life. I also plan to become a professor of nuclear physics at the University of Málaga. Okay, that was a blatant lie. But what is it exactly that I am going to do? Like seriously seriously?
Before I let you in on the good news, I also need to give a little bit of boring background info regarding my employment. For the last five or six years of my life, I've been teaching English. Therefore, if you happen to find spelling or grammatical errors in my writing, do let somebody know about it, just not me. The problem with teaching English is that you get to a certain point where you don't really develop anymore. It's an extremely rewarding profession, if I may call it that, but there's a certain threshold that stops you from moving further.
Now I've always been a geek on the inside, many girls would probably agree that the same is true on the outside, but I completely and entirely disagree. This inner geek has remained hidden throughout my teaching days, but for years I've heard the little geek inside of me calling:
while (true)
{
System.out.print("Let me out!");
}
Well, it's time to set him free. I've decided that I'm going to get back to doing IT stuff and since I plan to work at home on the patio of my hacienda somewhere in the area of Costa Brava, I thought that becoming a Freelance Web Developer would make most perfect sense. So, we're going to try to cast two objects - Warsaw and English Teacher and change them to Málaga and Freelance Web Developer. I love this geekyness.
More to come very soon, stay tuned...
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