New Directions

So this summer, besides reading and writing out memos, I decided that I should change my major. As much as I love the fast and furious life of computer engineering, something's missing in this whole situation for me. For one, I've said since I was old enough to hate my desk in the second grade that I don't want to be confined to one for the rest of my life. That statement is as true today as it was years ago before I even knew what a desk job was.

It's no secret, I'm a closet FOSS lover. That's free and open source software, for those of you who didn't know, but I think I'm going to keep my love for such things relegated to hobbyist fantasies. Yeah my main desktop runs Kubuntu, and yeah I plan on destroying it 50 billion times before I'm happy, but it's just going to stay a hobby.

So why the change? Well, after reading Hill Harper's Letters to a Young Brother I realize that I don't just have to do just one thing that makes me happy. I did the ACE program in high school and loved it, and really loved the whole idea of going out "in the field" to job sites and the like to check up on the progress of a building, or traveling to a client's office and present to them my company's plan for building their building. Project Manager sounds like my idea job. With computers, I see myself toiling away at a desk 10 hours a day five days a week. I can't do that; well I can, but I don't want to. I know TSU's architectural engineering program sets me up for that career, but what's also good is that I'll still have options. I could still work towards a graduate degree in structural engineering, architecture, or even law. I know one day I'm going to have to stop doing that. Making decisions that only lead to more options, but I'd rather have that than a dead end.