Suddenly Everything has Changed
Some job news: I’ve had the good fortune to be able to sign on with Enspire Learning. Enspire develops simulations for learning and training, and I’ve already been blown away by some of their work. I start on Monday.
It’s all happened very quickly: I just defended a little over a month ago. This week’s been a mad dash of cleaning out the office and doing all the logistical work I expected to have a couple of months to do.
I’m very happy. For a while I danced around the idea of the academic market, mostly because I want to keep doing scholarship, but that’s what weekends are for. Mike and I are happy and settled in Austin, and there’s no sense in messing with that when there’s plenty of opportunity for both of us here. That’s all I’ll say about that, but I will point out
- Sellout;
- The Chronicle on Nonacademic Careers;
- And a list of links Beyond the Ivory Tower.
So this is the real ending of school, as opposed to the cursory half-endings I’ve played around with in the past, enrolling for three hours a semester and paying my tuition for the privilege of being partially committed to both software development and scholarship. Last year I decided to stop messing around, and not to leave the English building until the big paper was finished. Somehow that worked, mostly because of the generosity of some kind people who liked my rambling about video games.
With the ending of school comes the eventual end of my web hosting privileges at UT. Do I have five months, a year? I don’t know, but I’m nervous. I’ve been hosted here for seven years now, and I dread what this will do to my Google PageRank. Oh well, those are the breaks. Flex Mentallo‘s never coming out as a graphic novel anyway.
I think this blog will change (go dormant, or undergo a massive rethinking) in the next couple of months. It’s very task-specific, and it always feels weird to write about anything here that doesn’t have to do with the dissertation. When I make a decision, I’ll let you know.