Then i got home sick, turned into a drunkard, and just stopped going to class and said fuck it around spring break. I didnt go to one class from spring break on nor take a single final. I just lived at school and partied 7 days a week and dicked around online.
I got hooked up with ezra and importrides.com and started doing some content editing there.
I started east coast del sol shortly there after. That eventually turned into hondaswap.
So, everything happens for a reason. If I wasn't diking around online and was at class instead, hondaswap might never have existed.
After i came home, i went to a 9 month tech school about 6 months later. Got a job out of my required internship, and moved on up from there multiple times over the next 10 years. There was never any sense in going back to school to 'become a web programmer' when i WAS a 'web programmer'.
Now, i'm in a position where I'm not making a lot of money, but my job is pretty easy and has no fixed hours. I basically browser forums and ticket systems and help customers with their websites' SEO.... and it's 95% of the time basic stuff that I know inside and out. Some days are busy, but others are very slow. Which affords me time in between tickets/posts to study online at the same time. I'm looking at it as a now or never type deal. I doubt i'll be working here forever, but for the time being i'm poor, but comfortable. I've cut back on just about everything and im staying pretty even. It's keeping miles off my cars, and I get to sleep in which is good for me because i suck at sleeping at night.
Throwing in an online school into the mix to me seems like a now or never thing. I can do this for 3 more years.... but i can't do this forever. And going back, I really don't want to program any more.
I'm behind on a lot of things already, and likely will be skilled-out of it in 3 years time. Which is why making the move to management seems like the logical next step for me, and i can get it done at the same time that i'm working.