I had left CS after I graduated in '04 because I thought the job market was bad and I didn't like the hard classes I took my last 2 semesters. I was working on

I had left CS after I graduated in '04 because I thought the job market was bad and I didn't like the hard classes I took my last 2 semesters. I was working on a Masters in Urban Planning and read pg's essay "How to Be Silicon Valley" (http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html) which showed up in some urban planning discussion forums. It was provocative and well written so I read his other stuff, which reignited the interest in computing that I had when I was younger but lost when I became focused on school and jobs.