Starting at Farsight Studios

First day on the job! P.S. That non-symmetrical mustache is really bothering me too.

Starting a new job is all types of feelings. I’d done some little jobs before but nothing this legitimate. I was nervous and excited. I was going to meet a lot of people who I thought would be intimidating given their experience. I would be going into a completely new work environment, that I hoped I would succeed in. There was a lot there.

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Moving to California

One of the people in the photo I regret inviting.

After saying goodbye to the friends we had made in Florida with some delicious pizza from Lazy Moon and then hanging at my house with some Jackbox Party Pack, Cali and I packed up our condo that we fell in love with. It was fucking exhausting work. That’s a decent sized U-Haul in the above photo, and it’s nearly filled to the brim. Luckily, our very good friend on the left of me in the photo drove over half an hour to help us put in some of the heavier objects—this was a couple hours before his class started too! After spending a couple days of packing and moving stuff into the truck, we were done. With the cats and their litter boxes in the Prius and all our stuff in the truck, we were ready to set say goodbye to Orlando and hello to Big Bear.

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Interviewing for a Game Company: Final Steps

I had a week to kill until Farsight said they would send me over the written offer, so I was going to see what SSE had to offer even though, regardless of what SSE said, I was going to choose Farsight. Why even bother with SSE if I had made my mind up? Because all interviews are great experience, and I wanted to stroke my ego by getting offers from both companies.

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