Jobs and Moving

I recently found out that my favorite video game company (still in existence) is hiring for a Linux system administrator. That may not sound like a wonderful job to most people but even just being in that environment would be amazing.

So I brushed up my resume and then decided not to do anything with it. I figured, if I didn't send it in, I wouldn't be disappointed anyways. Plus, with the housing market like it is and the mass joblessness, now isn't a good time to be moving around and becoming the new guy at some company because they are usually the first to go, right? So I did nothing.

Then as this week rolled on, it started eating at me. I have been wanting to move out of SC for a little while now and I've always wanted to work in a video game company. This seemed like a great fit (if it worked). I wrestled back and forth on the idea. The good: video games, linux, California (a lot of ppl like it, they can't all be wrong, right?). The bad: moving, selling a house, buying a house, California.

Well, whatever. The point of this post is that I finally did it. I sent in my resume and fell into the trap of feeling really exciting about something. I even looked up cost-of-living differences and house prices. Why? I dunno, dreams are hard to ignore even when you know it won't happen. Then I get a response (automated of course) and it says something about the large volume of applicants and how they can't respond to everyone and my heart sank again.

I wish I had never found out about this stupid job. I was completely content with my shitty job.