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Recently i've found myself wondering more and more about all the random friends i've had over the years that seem to have just faded away. When i was a kid, i had a couple close friends that i figured i would be tight with for the rest of my life, but that lasted until high school. Now, a few years after moving from my hometown to Dallas, i've lost contact with every single one of my friends. It's not something i really hold alot of regret about, these things happen and in most cases i put a decent amount of effort into maintaining the friendship. Still, none-the-less, i do catch myself thinking about them and wondering how everyone is doing. I don't have an overriding passion to track them down or anything, more of just a passing curiosity.

Over the last couple months i've been looking at either getting back into school or just getting very specific training that would send me along the path to my desire career(s). After narrowing down the options to either spending time in college for a degree towards Video Game Design or Unix/Win Sysadmin, i decided to go with sysadmin. The job market is a bit easier to get into and i think overall it's gonna be the more stable choice. Sun has a pretty decent training program set up, so i've decided to go that route. As with most major decisions in my life, i've broken this down into a few phases. Well, i've concluded the vast majority of my research phase and it's not looking too bad. Overall, i'll be spending about the same amount as i spent on my car over the next few months. By the end of Aug, i should hopefully have all the basic skills i need to start work as a junior sysadmin. Looks like i'll have rather large gaps between intro, sysadmin I and sysadmin II, but that should work to my advantage i would think. If nothing else, it'll give me time to fully explore any of the weaker areas i run across and hopefully get some good, quality time in for a class and/or self study on perl scripting. I still need to check with SMU/UTD about some non-credit courses on perl, but that shouldn't be a big deal. If nothing else, we got more than enough books in both hard copy and ebook form to keep me very busy. It was a bit daunting at first, but it seems like it'll work out pretty well overall. With any luck, i'll be able to get a decent job that'll opt for sending me for network admin classes. If not, there's always vacation time later.







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