>>Today I submitted my two week notice. I'll be taking the summer off to travel and for a little R&R (lots of golf) before dental school begins.
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>Best of luck in the new career.
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>A word of caution though. Do not apply rules of programming when practicing dentistry. That is, don’t apply the following logic: “if I pull out these two teeth and the pain still does not go away, the bugs are not there, so I have to try different approach” <bg>.

Or, worse still, pull them all out then put them back in one-by-one till the pain starts - then you know you have the troublesome tooth.

Congrats, Dean, on picking a new career, only just a little less nerdy than programming :-) (and probably a hell of a lot better paid!)