[cosgroveb]

Welcome back!

I recently "came back" so to speak. I spent 4 years after college on a development team for a Fortune 500 company that didn't actually develop that much and I came to see my profession as just a paycheck... I got a wake-up call and I've re-discovered my passion.

Congrats. Honestly, I didn't read your entire wall of text there but if you want to get into something cool (and use something you already know) you could do what I'm doing right now and learn Android development. It's a lot of fun and I didn't even know Java starting out. The docs are great.

http://developer.android.com/

[adidum]

thanks so much for your welcome. I have a question for you: what are the reasons that determined you to learn and develop for Android? I'm asking because to me it's all about motivation. If I have very meaningful reasons for what I'm doing, then I enjoy doing that, and don't quit too soon.