No, not the election, silly. My last cliffhanger post, of course. The wait for the new post.
I accepted the job in Austin. I told them my start date would be Nov. 8th. They sent me their IP agreement, I made some substantial changes to it, they agreed to them (the substantial portions, anyway). Then I told them that I was declining the offer.
I decided all of this because I didn't want to leave law school, essentially. I was worried that I would feel like I had flunked out, and I was pretty sure that I wasn't going to go back to law school to finish. I would have always wondered what might have been. Going to Texas, I could with some definitiveness determine what my life would be like. Staying in law school opens up a world of possibilities that I wouldn't have in going back to work just yet. Another thing that really bothered me is that I could be laid off in 6 months, and then I would have left school to have a job that I didn't have any more. That would've sucked.
Another thing that weighed on me was the fact that while in law school, I still have the opportunity to do tech-related things. I'm currently getting paid $80/week to work on Jurist, I can work for credits if I want, and the whole site is going to get re-written. By me. So I think I'll have enough things there to keep me busy, and if I decide to do tech-related work once I get out of law school, I'll be keeping my head in that game by working on the site.
2 weeks later, I have to say that I'm pretty happy with my decision. While I was trying to make the decision, even though I was leaning towards taking the job, I didn't feel good about the decision. I had a few fitfully-slept nights before making the decision, and none afterwards.
Though now that I went through all of that, I have a lot of catching up to do. I basically didn't do my schoolwork while I was trying to make the decision, and it put me really far behind. So that's what I'm trying to do lately, with some success, though not as much as I might like. I'm still far too easily distracted by other things, still too "open to suggestions".
Sorry it took so long to update. In case anyone is still checking the blog.
