One of the great things about America is that you can start all over again by moving to a new town, or by just simply doing the thing you are afraid to do.<\/p>\n
I had the offer letter in my hand. It was for a profitable company that just secured enough VC to outlast the Great Depression, The Sequel. Experience told me that this was the most sensible thing to do, so I signed the offer letter. I would be making more money that any previous job I had, and the position would be this cushy middle-ware coder.<\/p>\n
But something nagged at me. So much of life is an illusion. For some reason, I felt that the secure, money-maker of a job was an illusion. I also felt that I was taking myself away from the game of business where I would right all the wrongs done to me. I am still aching freshly from some wounds that people gave me; people who dishonored me by claiming I was a coder of poor quality when just weeks before they were saying I was the best of coders. I worked weekends for these people when none of the other developers would. I volunteered the most for being on-call, and they dishonor me.<\/p>\n
Anyway, dear Readers, you in the industry know who these dishonorable people are, and because I decided to take the harder road of freedom, I am free to speak of them here. Why? Because in a world where faint praise is damning, there is no amicability in that. Because I will never, ever use the dishonorable as a reference. I will only use honorable references from honorable men, if I have to, but I really just want to free myself from references altogether. I will hack things out project by project and by the skin of my teeth, and be free.<\/p>\n
I turned the offer of security down.<\/p>\n
I chose total personal freedom.<\/p>\n
The crumb of freedom tastes better than the banquet of slaves.<\/p>\n
I have been learning so much in the situations that I’ve been in these past few days.<\/p>\n
My code is my reference.<\/p>\n
What would you choose? Security or Freedom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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