I gotta be honest with you guys.
I’ve been hella anxious and stressed for the couple past days. Doesn’t help that I’ve also been a little depressed due to the cold & dark Finnish winter (and not been able to enjoy esk8ing).
The point being, if this looks like it could be something that would be worth it to quit my current part-time engineering job. I have already talked with them about what I’ve been doing in my free-time, how the development has gone and progressed and that I might be possibly leaving the company if this looks like it could be something worthwhile. When I came to the company, the job was all new and exciting, but over the couple of years working there, it has become dull, limiting and I can’t find the passion or motivation for the customer projects. I am honestly so glad to have met my colleagues, which are all awesome, fantastic people and that they are pretty much the only thing still keeping me there.
In a sense, I’m both excited and scared for either outcome. Scared of this new effort failing and having to return back to the old job, but excited to be able to stay with the colleagues that I enjoy working with. Excited for the new effort succeeding and scared of having the leave my wonderful colleagues behind and the possibility of failure that might loom in the future. I’ve been jumping between two hot irons for some time now and I feel tired (although this winter depression might have something to do with it at the moment).
I’m still worried about that one event where a user managed to fry their laptop’s USB-port and I couldn’t find any possible failure mode that could have caused it, nor did the extra digging and discussion with the affected user reveal anything new. I have since refunded the price of the 1 unit to them on Paypal, even though they didn’t buy it from me, but from another user that actually bought it from me. I had asked them to ship the unit back to me, but due to busy school scheduling at the end of the year and 'Rona related problems at the start of the year, they haven’t been able to ship the unit back to me, so I haven’t been able to do any hands-on testing or diagnosis what could have caused this. I feel this is something I want you guys to know, as it is an un-diagnosed event at this time and just in case it happens again.
I feel humbled and honored to have been presented with an opportunity to start my own company doing things that I find interesting and selling the fruits born from said interests to a group of fellow hobbyists and enthusiast like you guys.
If you guys still feel like taking a chance on me knowing these things.
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