Wednesday was OpFair 2007, put together by both the Engineering and Computing Science Student Societies, where over 20 high tech companies in the local area, had booths set up to look for potential employees. As most of these places are also looking for co-ops, I just had to go out and see just what’s available. Going through most of the booths, I began to worry a bit as most places will be making use of C++. I will most likely need to spend some time making use of good old g++ and some good website to self-teach myself C++ from my light-to-moderate knowledge of C.

But the companies there are quite interesting. I certainly didn’t know that Sophos had an office in Vancouver until walking around. Computer security is interesting and doing virus research through reverse engineering viruses to see what they do and how to make fixes is even more interesting. Unfortunately, I only have interest, not experience, in the area, which is quite disappointing for myself.

Then there’s IBM. Having gone to their information session a week or so earlier, it would be a nice place to apply for. Knowing people already there (well, one really), is a big plus already.

Orbital Technologies does some contract work and such. The variety of jobs you might be doing sounds intriguing enough for me to want to apply and try it out. At least you’ll never get bored as what you’ll be working on changes in between projects.

There’s other companies there as well, but these three were the ones that interested me the most during OpFair. Other companies there that I would probably be interested in working for include Business Objects, Telus, and Electronic Arts.

But yes, I really need to take some time to go and do some things with C++ and reverse engineer some stuff. Thankfully, I don’t really need to look around to find things that I can reverse without getting into trouble. I just need time..

Which brings me to the next thing. Time. I just feel like I have way too many things to do. My parents kind of made me think about this when they gave me a good long talk, in which I felt irritated simply because it’s things I’ve heard before and am trying to change myself out of, including wasting time and time management and all that other crap. Let’s see now..

There’s school, work, Scouts, two websites, and WCCCLC promotions (which will include the website, not accounted for in previous count). I do feel like I have lots to do, but then again, I cannot really focus on one thing at a time these days, simply because I’m worrying about something else. I feel that I should drop some responsibilities, but there are some things holding me back:

• School: too high on priority list – cannot drop
• Work: also pretty high on priority list, mainly for the work experience that is involved with it
• Scouts: Several things holding me back on this one. 1) Attachment to the group, since I’ve been in the group for about 10 years.. 2) Guilt over if I leave, what will happen to the group? It’s growing these days and they say they might just start a Beaver Colony next year..
• Website 1 (99th SFX Scouts): I’m the only person working on this, so I can’t really do that..
• Website 2 (Pacific Coast Council): I’m part of a team of people doing this, but I value the work that we put into it, so nope..
• WCCCLC: it’s a great event and I would like to encourage others to go, as well as get more experience out of it, so nope..
• Gaming: my stress relief and what times turns into when I lose focus, although these days it’s mainly Minesweeper (in the form of Mines, part of the GNOME package) and Battle for Wesnoth.

So yeah, lots of things to do, lots of things to worry about simply because I care too much, which leads to a general inability to focus on things that really should be done. But what can I do?

I guess what I could do is hurry the 99th SFX Scouts website such that it’s complete, then I don’t need to do much for it anymore, leaving more time for other things.

But will it work? Will I be able to balance out my time between all these duties without breaking down? What will I drop?

I don’t know. I’ll need to think it through.

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