On the hunt

It's the second full day of being unemployed. Quite an odd feeling. I feel as if I should be scared, but recent events make it seem like the future is full of possibilities - many of which may be better than the recent past - and that was pretty damn good. I'm very conflicted - we're conditioned to think that being unemployed shouldn't feel like this.

In my free time (which isn't as considerable as I had hoped), I'm working as hard as I ever had. And all of it is in Rails, which also fills me with joy.

Of course, it's not all roses! I'm learning how to write extensions for Spree, and I've just encountered my third "wrong turn". While it's frustrating, each correction results in significantly less code. I suppose that means I'm on the right path!

Here's a sample of my schedule for the next couple of days:
- Today (tuesday): Should hear back on whether I'll get a second interview with a primarily .net shop
- Tomorrow: Phone interview for 3 month contract position. Possible call with HR department of large open-sourcish company (their HR guy contacted me - never burn bridges).
- Thursday: New office space! It's only a short term deal, but it's free for now!
- Early next week: If the phone interview goes well tomorrow, I'll do a conference call with their developers - one of which I interviewed while at my last job - the recruiter said he was thrilled that they might be able to hire me (never, ever burn bridges).
- Later next week: Interview with extremely large company. I used to work for the manager of the group I'd be working in - he said yesterday how great it would be to have another developer he knew he could trust to write code correctly (never, ever burn bridges, pee off the side of them or do anything else that might soil your relationship with the other side of the bridge).