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+title: Futures
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+I'm going to be graduating from college in December and I'm a little bit freaking out.
+Not because I don't have a plan, but because I have six plans.
+
+## Melody the grad student
+
+I may hate college, but that doesn't mean I'm not good at it.
+I'm still not entirely sure if it's college in general I hate or just my college in particular, but I've got a hunch it's the latter.
+In that case, I could absolutely try to get a master's in computer science at a halfway decent university.
+
+This would be the next step towards getting a Ph.D. and becoming a computer science professor, which is a thing that I think would be super cool.
+However, the step itself would take a whole bunch of work and I don't necessarily have all that much interest in CS theory.
+Someone suggested that I could pursue a master's in philosophy instead, which is an intriguing but counterintuitive prospect that I haven't necessarily thought all the way through yet.
+
+I don't think I could take another semester of college right now, but most places are probably set up for people to start in the fall and not the spring, so that works out.
+
+## Melody the indie miscellany dev
+
+I am a walking collection of half-baked project ideas waiting to be built.
+Web application that bridges Twitter content into the ActivityPub/OStatus fediverse (Mastodon et al).
+No-code-required Discord bot toolkit.
+[TodoMVC](http://todomvc.com/) but for desktop GUI frameworks.
+
+If I had the time, I could actually build some of those things.
+I'd need to make money somehow, though; if this were me full time I'd probably be on Patreon or trying to figure out non-shady ways to monetize this stuff.
+However, being solely responsible for things that people actually use would be super stressful.
+Plus I don't think I have the discipline to do anything if there's nobody to make me do it.
+
+## Melody the indie game dev
+
+Games are cool.
+I've made a handful already for game jams and whatnot.
+Actually, the first thing I actually did as boringcactus was make a game for a game jam.
+
+The trouble is that I don't have a big-I Idea that I would pursue if I decided I wanted to be an indie dev.
+Most of my jam games are either finished or not worth finishing.
+I'd love to make something that's an indie success story like Night in the Woods or Gunpoint, but those games already exist.
+Plus the odds of taking off like that are kinda one-in-a-million.
+
+## Melody the musician
+
+*This* is a long shot.
+But music production and performance is a thing that's always been important to me.
+Early in high school I made some garbage tier EDM that didn't go anywhere.
+
+What I'd really like to do is live looping covers of things that weren't really designed to be replicated like that.
+I think something like [this live performance of Marian Hill's *Down*](https://youtu.be/uc9Bi52ZQ7A?t=30s) would be super amazing to do with more complicated songs.
+I wrote a [REAPER](https://www.reaper.fm/) plugin that would help with stuff like that, but I haven't actually used it for anything yet.
+
+## Melody the small tech co employee
+
+This is a rant that I'll probably give in more detail some other time, but I think the Silicon Valley venture capital model is directly responsible for how shitty the tech industry is.
+
+If I wanted traditional employment, the best environment for it would be a small company that isn't beholden to a VC firm.
+A company that can keep its standards and leave growth on the table if it'd be unethical to pursue it is a company that I'd probably be comfortable working for.
+
+## Melody the sellout
+
+Of course, small companies don't get that way by hiring every rando with a résumé.
+Big companies with bad ethics are almost always hiring.
+And they're the most likely to still be around several years from now.