It's been a little over 4 months since I began my 'sabbatical', and it's time to get back to work. During my time off, I did some fun stuff. I developed several Ruby on Rails plugins (see the projects page), I took part in a failed startup attempt and I got married. The getting married bit was definitely the best of the bunch.

Now, though, I find myself wondering what to do. There are plenty of traditional software development jobs here in Waterloo, but I wonder if I'm cut out for the traditional 9-5 thing. I've always wanted to do freelance work and be my own boss. This site is an indication of that. I'm just not sure yet that I can make a full time go of it.

Additionally, I've lately come to realize that I really like to work in languages like Ruby and Python. Unfortunately, most of the work out there is set in Java or .NET land. Not that I dislike either - they're fine and are sufficient for the work at hand. I just prefer to work in something a little more elegant.

So I guess the questions that I need to ask myself are:

Anyway, food for thought over the next few days.