in case you're curious.

i turned 30 in january, 2011. i did have some part time jobs over 2011, but i don't believe i had a full time job in that space.

i worked briefly for fortinet in the spring of 2010, when i was 29. they fired me for being late to work repeatedly, and i was late pretty much every day for two weeks. it was in bells corners. this was something that pissed me off about ottawa - i wanted to live downtown, but all of the tech jobs were in places like bells corners and kanata that i'd otherwise never want to go to for any reason, ever. so, i was always late for work because all of the jobs were always in the middle of nowhere. i would have actually preferred to work fast food downtown, but i was overqualified, and i couldn't get anybody to call me back.

that was my last full time job - the spring of 2010, when i had just turned 29.

i have not had any job at all since mid-2011. at this point, i have no intention of working ever again.

so, i can't exactly claim i retired at 30. but, it was pretty close.

fwiw, i graduated with a b. mathematics in late 2006, at the age of 25. i went back to school in 2008, and dropped out of a b. sc a half credit short of a programming degree in 2010, with a pretty high gpa. i have more than 6 mathematics credits at the graduate level, as well.

so, if i graduated at nearly 26 and retired a few months after 30, and spent most of 27-29 back in school, that's a lot of "fuck working", isn't it? if i can win some serious money soon, i can really retire at 40. and, i'll say it again and again: fuck working.

also: when microsoft laid me off in mid-2007, they gave me a huge severance. so, i didn't work that summer either.

i only worked actual full time jobs from about 11-2006 to about 06-2007, and (after taking the summer of 2007 off with the severance from microsoft) from about 11-2007 to about 06-2008. i was fired for not showing up to work on canada day, 2008, because i was drinking in my friend's living room, instead. i didn't bother working the rest of the summer. i had around 10 jobs in that period, and was fired for being late or laid off due to offshoring (don't tell me it doesn't happen. i lost three jobs in a year because of it.) repeatedly. and, then my dad tricked me into going back to school...

that's really barely a year of actual working.

am i too stupid to figure it out, or too smart to get stuck in it? you tell me.

but, if i can turn the arrest into a retirement plan, you can be sure i will.