{"author_name":"RandomizeR","cat":"LD - Misc","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"March 21, 2011 7:28 am","epoch":1300710480,"text":"Woah woah woah, you quit your job to learn to make games?  Do you have a large chunk of money to support yourself or something?  Sounds cool and all but I&#8217;m worried for you!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"March 21, 2011 1:14 pm","epoch":1300731240,"text":"Mainly I quit one of my jobs. I am also studying for my Masters degree, and I do Teaching Assistant work to support that study. I still have fixed income, but in smaller amounts, just enough to keep me going. I quit so I can focus more on my studies and do more computer science research, and of course so I can have some free time to make games and hopefully make some money out of that as well.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"March 22, 2011 4:01 pm","epoch":1300827660,"text":"I was in the same spot just a year ago, but a combination of teaching assistantship, classes, research, and two kids were a bit too much.  I wasn&#8217;t able to focus on games.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Mikhail Rudoy","time":"March 21, 2011 2:41 pm","epoch":1300736460,"text":"Good luck. Hope it works out for you.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"March 21, 2011 3:46 pm","epoch":1300740360,"text":"Thanks PoV and Mikhail.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"March 21, 2011 5:23 pm","epoch":1300746180,"text":"Congrats!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1300705860,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"67364","p_author":"RandomizeR","p_authorkey":"509997","p_urlkey":"103167","p_title":"I DID IT!","p_cat":"LD - Misc","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1300705860","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"6","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"509997","us_name":"RandomizeR","us_username":"RandomizeR","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"<p>I just gave my two weeks notice at my day job. From now on it&#8217;s just me, computer science research, and game development. All day. All the time!<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m going indie&#8230;!<\/p>\n <p>[edit]Here&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacktopgames.com\/2011\/03\/countdown-to-re-ignition\/\"> a post on my blog<\/a> with more about that&#8230;[\/edit]<\/p>","time":"March 21st, 2011 6:11 am","title":"I DID IT!"}