Moving on and Other Stuff

So I've thought about blogging about quitting my job for awhile, but I wanted to wait til I put my 2 weeks in just in case. So now I'm moving on. One thing I've been fairly amazed and troubled at is the way small business owners expect people to work themselves to death for the most part. I'm talking more than just getting the job done when it's needed, but more like "You should work 45 hours a week". Now, the first thing, is that even if I love my job enough to do it, the fact that it's expected makes me say, "You should pay me for 45 hours a week worth of work then." But the next thing is, it seems like allot of great companies have figured out that this doesn't work. Eventually you get tired, and if you're good, the company looses your service. Managers like this also seem to micro manage or have odd rules to some point which many big companies seem more willing to drop.

The view the good manager has seems to be something I heard J.C. Penny realized when he started that company. That is that you have to find the right people and let them do what they do. Makes me wonder if I was able to just run the Software Group the way I thought would be most productive what could have been. But it's not my interest anymore, I'll be out the start of February.

So, beyond that, more iPod ripping. I've got 60 Gigs in one of my computers and I had to bite the bullet and buy my second +100 MB drive. Most of it is going into wav files I recorded from tape. I 'm quite happy with the one tape I remasterd, and will have to do the other two soon. Right now I'm trying to get some video going, which should also happen soon.

For pod casts, the one great one I'm enjoying is se-radio.net . Now that I'll be driving an hour a day, I'll get to focus on these while I commute, which will definitely be good for me.