Foliosus

Hello world wide web. I hope that this post marks the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship between me and you. For my part, I’m a web designer-in-training. Or if you prefer, a grad student who decided to leave the botanical sciences for the wilds of the interweb. You might wonder why I would make such a transition. Well, there are several reasons.

1. Pursuing a career in a field with employment opportunity
2. Being in an industry that has portable skills, so that my Australian wife and I can move to Perth
3. Getting a job (see #1)
4. Finally starting to earn some money - 28 is a bit old to still be a student

Looking down the track at a career in Botany, I see that there just aren’t any jobs out there. It doesn’t make sense to play the academic game for another decade finishing a Ph.D. (which lowers lifetime earning potential) and pursuing a couple of post-doc positions to then find out that there isn’t a job for me to do. So it is with regret that I’m leaving academia, as I still love many things about it. Instead of being a botanist who dabbles in web technologies, I’ve decided to become a web designer who botanizes; I’m switching my vocation for my hobby.

So what does this mean for you dear reader, dear web? It means that you have another blog to read. I intend to fill these pages with discussion about the web and web technologies, breaking in to the IT industry, design, plants, and good food (my other hobby). These pages will be part personal, part professional. I hope that they will be all enjoyable.

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