I'm quite happy

Published August 02, 2019
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Things have been going really great!

* My moms chemo therapy is working. It's not a cure by any means, but it will buy her more lifetime. There's a very small chance that she might eventually get healthy enough to fly back to America. 

* One of the VR projects I worked on in Nov 2018 was recently nominated for an Emmy award. I'm sure the competition will be stiff, so I'm not really expecting it to win. I worked on the "putting it together" part, where I did the programming and tech platforms. A small, but important part of the production. To even have an app I worked on get nominated is quite a confidence booster though.

* My day job at facebook reality labs has been going fantastic. I really enjoy the work I do and the work culture and atmosphere is fantastic. My team is great, there are no insane schedules and no mandatory overtime. We have a cafeteria which makes 3 meals a day, loads of delicious food and snacks, and the vending machines give you any computer hardware you need (mice, keyboards, cables, etc). IT helpdesk is super helpful too. This place is probably going to be the standard I use to measure working for other companies. I can't talk about what I work on though. Maybe that'll come out years down the road when & if its all public. That's one thing I miss about doing indie work: I could talk about anything I wanted to any degree of detail.

* Weather has been nice, can't complain. My car works again. My commute is a glorious 4 miles away (10 minute drive).

Unfortunately, I've been slacking a bit on my other side projects due to lack of time and energy. That's what day jobs do to ya :(

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Rutin

Glad things are looking up for you! Hope your mom is able to get well!

August 02, 2019 06:40 AM
MagForceSeven

Welcome to the data mines brother. Hopefully you're able find the right back and forth with your side projects. I definitely try to use it to smooth over work related things. Like during a sprint planning week where I'm in too many meetings it's really nice to come home in the evening and have code to work on that doesn't require a meeting with anyone. Even better is when I have something at home or work that makes me excited to integrate that into the other. A lot of what I have my side project for is as a test-bed for experimentation so that I can take more fully formed ideas of how something should work or what a system should look like before committing resources at work. Or I learn some weird Unreal tidbit and add it to my backlog of things to have an excuse to try.

August 04, 2019 02:19 PM
ongamex92

Great to hear! Hope you'll start making youtube videos again, they were really motivating to me! Good luck!

August 29, 2019 02:07 PM
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