A couple weeks back, the general manager at my hotel bought $14,000 worth of computers and equipment to start up his new computer business. He had me help unpack and set up the server and workstations. We had a brief conversation about how I like to work with computers and have always enjoyed web-related stuff.

A few days later, he talked to me again about it. He showed me a site where I could learn about the .NET framework and ASP.NET. He said he wanted me to learn as much as I could about it. He also said that if I did well, I could get transferred from the hotel to his new company, Impex Technologies. I was pretty excited, but held my breath since there have been empty promises in the past.

Within a week, he had developers coming in and helping start up his initial business web site. He then gave me a project that had me researching and analyzing a particular web application so they could recreate it. I wrote a 5 page paper on it (didn't think I would ever be doing that after college, lol).

The next week, he came up with another project for me. This time, I was evaluating and critiquing his developers' work of recreating the web application (there's an ego boost for ya, I don't even have development experience, lol).

Then today, he pulled me aside again. He asked how my training was going. I had been reading a lot and watching tons of demo videos to get the hang of it. He asked when I'd be ready for transfer, so I answered him by asking when he wanted me to be ready.

Then it hit me and got real.

He said he wanted me to be ready to start on their projects in 1-2 weeks. I about fainted, lol. I am excited about this opportunity, and I know I will be working my ass off....but anything is better than working front desk of a hotel.