One week since I quit a Fortune 100 IT Job--and I'm loving it

I was working on my shareware app for a few years and making great progress. My dad was laid off from his job in August 2007 after 12 years, and he was very depressed. I wasn't sure about my financial situation either. I tried helping him find a job and thought I should get one as well. (I went to his first interview with him, and they wanted to interview me instead, and kept asking me to come back.) He's since found a better job than where he was laid off from. I sure wish I learned Smalltalk for one of those YC Startups that has since been bought, but I think I needed to get a normal, local job to show my family I care (instead of trying to move to California at that time).

Now I've quit after working corporate for a year, and I'm loving this decision. :) I decided to start (and finish) a B.S. in Computer Science degree, possibly even this Spring (as a transfer student with an A.S. in Engineering and Science, Computer Science option), or next Fall, as a double major with Computer Science and Mathematics. It's been a week since I quit, and two weeks since classes started, and I don't regret it one bit.

The other side of the coin, and just as important, is that I want to have some time to make friends with potential future cofounders. Having cofounders and a completed degree will be awesome. I am very excited!

One of my classes this semester is in the high 400's, which is an independent project in launching one's own mobile app (if not several.) That is what I wanted to do this fall, anyway!

Paul Graham's articles, the last two Startup School events I've had the pleasure to attend, and the posts and people associated with News YC have been awesome motivators. Thank you all!