I've been meaning to start up a blog, but I wasn't sure on where or how to get started. I think that day has come where I've decided the where and the how. I don't care to gain exposure or to reach out to masses -- No, that is not the point of this blog. Rather, I just want a place to organize my thoughts and express an infrequent opinion.

I've worked in different IT fields for quite a while and at this current point in time, I find myself working at a dead end tech support job. It's not that I can't find a better tech support job, it's that my passion is in development. I feel at home when viewing source, debugging web apps, or even building something from scratch.

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I've mostly been working with PHP and CodeIgniter, but I've peaked at JavaScript and JQuery to see what they were all about. I was considering looking into a JavaScript framework, but it seems a little redundant if I'm already used to back-end work in PHP. I'm open to suggestion on that front, however.

Recently I made it to round 2 of interviewing at a company and I felt confidant that I was going to get the job, but they ended up going for someone else. The reason they went for someone else over me? I do not have a bachelors degree -- Or any degree for that matter. Despite having a plethora of source from various projects and web applications at hand ready to demonstrate my experience, it seemed as if it wasn't enough.

That isn't to say that I am going to let this one occurrence defeat me. No, I'm not saying that at all. I will persist until I get the job that I want -- The job that is meant for me. I do not believe that a degree is really what is standing in my way from obtaining my goal. I know that, in part, I am in my own way.

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Also, the pictures are irrelevant, but they are pictures of Chris Cornell at a live show that I attended. Was fortunate to have had the opportunity to see him live with Sound Garden.