>It's a big day for me. Career change.
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>Today is my last day at ARS, and with a little luck, my last day of working in the software business.
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>I'm going to try to break into the profession of "starving artist", and I figured the only way to do that is to put a stop to my income, and live as if I'm in a never ending string of Saturdays.

Nice move, wish you all the best...

...just got me curious here. Will you have an office, OK make that a studio, where you'll starve, or would you make house calls? Maybe do a few conference gigs? May pay well, who knows. Surely should do much better than amateur starving artists.

(Expecting a stone flung from Terry's general direction)