A new chapter

Sounds ominous don't it?

Well it isn't. A keen reader of the blog may have noticed a trend of me complaining about my job and generally bemoaning my opportunities and the system in general... man.

Well I can't do anything about the system but I am in the privileged position of being able to do something about my opportunities thanks to my father and some education money left by my grandfather.

I am going back to school.

This time it is something new, I am going to the Tech Academy for their coding bootcamp. This is a fifteen week course that theoretically will give me all I need to know to become a programmer, they even assist with job placement. If the claims they make are accurate, within five months or so I should be at a new job making sixty grand a year or something. Which is rather an upgrade from my current position. I don't know that I fully believe that will happen, although it is supported a bit when I research independent reviews of the school, but even half of that is still more than I make now, so I feel like it is probably a good risk to take. Plus programming is something I have always felt I should learn, so what do I have to lose?

Potentially a lot, but mostly just in the form of mental health, so let's not fuck it up.

Anyway, the last couple weeks have been spent researching what school to take, deciding on a start date for the classes, adjusting my work schedule, and ordering a new computer that actually works and is a laptop. All that has been done.

I start tomorrow.