Hi Michael,
Good luck. Your tireless support on this project has been greatly
appreciated. I hope things go well in the job change and that we continue to
see you posting on this list and developing Rosegarden. You help has been
invaluable.
What would be nice, as a community of Rosegarden users, is to come up with a
model for you to get financial support for your work on Rosegarden. It would
be cool if that could be your full time job; assuming you wanted something
like that.
I have presented on using Rosegarden in the classroom twice in the last year
at educational conferences. If we could grow the base of educational
institution users and studio artists, perhaps there would be a way to create
full time work on Rosegarden. The program is certainly worthy of
consideration in those realms and worth having people working on it full
time.
Dave
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:47 PM, D. Michael McIntyre <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After thinking about it for two months or so, I have just officially said
> goodbye to my lucrative career driving an 18-wheeler and traded it in for a
> job changing oil and tires at Wal-Mart for less than half of what I used to
> make.
>
> Believe me, I'd love to entertain other options, and I've been trying to
> find
> some other kind of job the whole time. Some "none of the above" Option C
> in
> this. I just can't find anything else to do with myself right now. The
> only
> jobs that feel like the kind of thing I'd like to do for a living are only
> available as short-term temp gigs that are few, far between, and difficult
> to
> get even for all that. I just can't live from temp job to temp job. That
> kind of uncertainty was fine when I was a kid with no real
> responsibilities,
> but I can't live like that now.
>
> So I've stepped back to a fork in the road, and I'm going to follow the
> other
> path, and see where I would have ended up if I had stayed on at Wal-Mart
> instead of quitting to go to truck driving school. I'm actually starting
> pretty close to where I left off 11 years ago, and I don't have to begin at
> the very beginning all over again, so it's possible to see how this is
> going
> to play out within a year or so.
>
> It's a really surreal place to be in life. Part of me can't take working
> at
> Wal-Mart seriously at all. WTF am I thinking? But it's somewhere to jump
> to
> in order to get off the ship I'm on before it sinks. I rode the last one to
> the bottom, and getting laid off was miserable. I have good intelligence
> that the job I'm leaving is going to evaporate by December anyway, and I
> have
> no intention of riding that train all the way to the bit where we see
> whether
> the tracks are going to end abruptly at a ravine or not. If my successor
> is
> still working this time next year, I'll probably feel like an idiot, but if
> he's going over the road for $0.30 a mile getting paid on a 1099 with no
> benefits, no paid vacations, sick days, etc., I'll probably be tapdancing
> all
> the way to the oil changing pit. (Though hopefully by this time next year
> I
> will have long since escaped the Tire and Lube Express anyway. I'm taking
> that job because that's what they need at the moment, and I'm going to be
> flexible, and make myself as useful as possible.)
>
> I'm glad I'm getting out of that, and I'm glad I have finally reached the
> decision that no, I absolutely will not go over the road. (The easiest way
> by a gigantic margin to find a job in the trucking business.) But I do
> wish
> I had been able to come up with a plan that would involve less hardship.
> We
> are going to be desperately poor like we haven't seen in more than a
> decade,
> and I hate being poor.
>
> I'm not begging anyone for donations, but if anyone wants to part with some
> cash, I'll gladly accept anything. I'm ruined, financially. Totally
> ruined.
> I'll keep my internet connection as long as possible, but it's definitely
> on
> the "luxuries to be dispensed with" side of the ledger if it comes to that,
> and it well may.
>
> But I hope I can be a happier man after this. I've been profoundly unhappy
> with the direction my life was taking for a long time now, and while I am
> frankly terrified of what's to come, and sitting here in shocked disbelief
> that I actually went through with this, after around two months of
> waffling,
> I'm also glad I don't have to drive a truck anymore, and I can put that
> behind me now. I wish I had been able to find a more tidy way to escape a
> career I long since started to hate, but at least I did escape in the end.
>
> Wish me luck, everyone!
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre
>
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