So I’m sitting at work a few days ago rebuilding a PC and someone calls me and says they have an exciting new career possibility for me, and asked if I’d be interested about hearing more?

I’m like “yeah sure, knock yourself out.”

Fast forward two weeks to today, and here I am cleaning out my cubicle.

Turns out this exciting new career possibility was exactly just that.  A 40 person startup named Vitrue that just landed 2nd round funding was insourcing (ya know… the strange, rarely seen opposite of outsourcing) their development team and needed a couple positions filled.  The guys over at Revelation Partners somehow found my bad-ass mojo on the internet and thought I’d be a good fit.  Turns out I am.  Went in for a 3 hour interview and left with an offer that I couldn’t refuse.

It’s strange, my perception and attitude towards ‘work’ has always been that its just a job.  Other people put pictures of their kids all up in their office, personalize everything… I just sit at my computer and do my job.  My job isn’t my life, you know?   My life starts at 5 pm, the job is just something people do to kill time during the day.  It’s a strange dance of probability about who you get stuck next to or working with, and I guess I should be thankful that I’ve never even considered the fact that who I work with would be a contributing factor to wanting to leave.

I went to GT and got a couple of degrees and paid them $35k for the opportunity to do so.  Then I turned around and worked there for a couple years and let them pay me three times that in retribution, so all in all, no complaints.

It’s going to be nice to just be an alumni now.  Go Tech, but go on Marta!