Leaving IBM

Friday, August 10th 2007 will be my last day at IBM.

It’s been a year since the acquisition and I’ve learned a lot. IBM is a very stable and profitable place to work, but the trade off is a very unexciting work life. One day I’m sure I’ll beg for that work life, but not while I’m still young. This boredom is why you’re seeing an eight month gap in posts to this blog - I had nothing interesting going on to write about.
I want to take chances, work insane hours on challenging and exciting things, and do it all for an underdog of a company that can fold or get bought up at a day’s notice. What can I say? I practically grew up while working for startups. And I want to keep doing it while I have the youth, energy, and will to do so.

After a little over a month of job searching I’ve signed up with Oxygen Games. The little company has a handful of employees, all of which I’ve worked with in the past and know well. When I was just a kid I always wanted to work on video games. These small web based games aren’t exactly what I had in mind back then, but they lack a lot of the drawbacks that kept me from actively pursuing that dream. The first game is online at Duels.com. Duels has had quite a busy day today, but I’ll keep that story for the next post later on today.