Last year, on November 18th, I left my position at Strictly Business to begin a new phase of my career at Marshall University.  This year, on November 14th, that experiment will come to an end and I'll be returning to Strictly Business (SBCS).

I had some pretty valid reasons for leaving SBCS and for going to Marshall but it has turned out that I like to code way more than I like any other aspect of being employed.   At Marshall I've met some great people and made some good friends but I have not had much of a chance to code so I've been inordinately bored.  I don't like computers nearly as much as I like making them do things and, at Marshall, there isn't a lot of need for me to make them do things as opposed to me doing things with them.

I'm not a systems administrator.  I don't enjoy doing that kind of work.  I do, however, really enjoy writing software programs and solving problems and that is what I did for twelve years at SBCS and what I'll be going back to do there and I couldn't be happier to be doing so.  For those twelve years there were no more than a handful of days of work where I thought the clock was dragging by.  Each day seemed to disappear as I got into the groove of writing code (the zone).

I am thankful to Marshall University for letting me come on board and I'm happy to have had the experience of working with John, Heath, and Eden - and for getting to know the many others in the IT department such as Jason, TJ, Dave, Kevin, and Brent.  I hope my contributions help them as they move forward through the never ending challenges of providing a high quality of service to the thousands of students and professors on campus.

I'm looking forward to getting back into my editor full time and helping the many and varied customers that Strictly Business has.  It's going to be good to code again.

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