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Let’s face it information technology is a really hard industry. It was only a few years ago that I struggled to get my 1st job. The one thing I never did was give up. It took me dozens of attempts (believe it or not) to get my 1st job. If you want something bad enough and try hard enough you can accomplish almost anything. I am living proof of that.

I’ve come along way in my career from a struggling programmer. I used to put so much effort into just surviving  a job. Now I am a confident enough of a developer to know  there are more important things to just surviving a job. If you’re not happy at a job there is no point to trying to put more effort into keeping it. Changing the focus of your dream should be directed towards finding a new job where you are happy.

I was not happy at my last job. I finally gave up in August on trying to keep it. It’s really funny how things worked out though. Here I am 6 months later and living in Tampa, Florida. Living in Florida used to be one of my dreams. Now I’m living my dreams of a good job (contract but very stable as contracts go) and am really happy where I live for the 1st time in my life.

Never give up, work hard at you dreams and you will see the fruits of your labor.

This is a video which talks about the latest up and coming web technologies. Another fantastic video from the folks at Google.

I have always been a firm believer it moving for the right opportunity. It has served me well the past few jobs. I just ran across this job for a Ajax Web Developer for $240k. The only catch is that the job is in Iraq. You could not pay me all the money in the world to put my life in that kind of danger. Who would have thought that being a computer programmer was a dangerous job?