parker’s desk

A week, to the day, after I started putting in appli­ca­tions to stu­dios and I have myself a job!  I feel like it’s a lit­tle early in the process to start boast­ing where I am just yet, so while I apol­o­gize for being Mis­ter Mys­te­rio here I’d pre­fer to keep where to myself until I actu­ally set my foot into the build­ing there.

I can say it’s in Austin, Texas…live music cap­i­tal of the world!  The cost of liv­ing is actu­ally cheaper there than it is in Apple­ton, Wis­con­sin (where I cur­rently am), which is even cheaper than Green Bay (where I used to work).

When I started apply­ing places, I had a “top three” in the coun­try as to where I wanted to work…two of them were in Austin, another was in Ari­zona.  I’m still in a bit of a daze that I was for­tu­nate enough to land a job out of my top three, and while I think the stan­dard pre-job jit­ters of “I hope I can live up to expec­ta­tions” there are danc­ing around in my stom­ach I know I’m going tof it right in there.

It’ll be very cool to work on AAA games, where I can tell my friends to go pick up a copy at a store now!  With two XBOX Live Arcade titles under my belt, I actu­ally don’t know any­one that has the sys­tem or – in the two cases of peo­ple own­ing them – they don’t down­load games.  Bah, I say!

The relo­ca­tion is going to be very sud­den though, which Kelly’s been amaz­ing with and helps build my con­fi­dence that we can pull the whole thing off.  I’ll be dri­ving out there in a week (I start on the 9^th of June), and I’m already work­ing with a realty agent to get myself a small stu­dio or one bed­room.  Kelly and the kids will fol­low suit out there in a cou­ple of months and we’ll upgrade to some­thing a lit­tle larger at that time.

Very excit­ing!

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