My name is Erik and I currently live in the Land O' Lakes / Lutz area of Tampa.I've been in the tech industry my whole career (15+ years) as a Software Engineer, Web Developer and Systems Architect for companies like Disney, Comcast, and Microsoft.

I was fortunate in this aspect.. my daughter graduated from UC Davis 2002 so the shock of 911 was 9 months behind her.. but your right it was a very difficult hiring time for Collage kids.the big tech companies were creaming the graduating class's if you were not 3.5 or 3.6 you had a tough time My daughter bless her heart was top 10 in her finance class and got offers from Intel Microsoft Apple etc. and took no time off and went to work ..

Microsoft Excel provides free Gantt schedule templates that you can download.Just open Excel, go to File -> New & then search 'Gantt'.Otherwise, you may want to checkout TeamGantt which is Free.

See the developer protests at Google and Microsoft very recently as an example. 

You should major in accounting and spend your side time focusing on Microsoft excel, logic, modeling, and general finance. 

Im investing in huge growth stock, Chipotle, or Amazon, or Netflix....now Ive convinced myself because those returns are higher, that they are lower risk than a boring old Aflac or Microsoft. 

In some cases, this idea is not as risky as it seems.When Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, some people considered the decision to be a gutsy move.

Yes Russell I think was correct in that original prediction as were a couple others and it just made political sense when you consider Bill Gates/Microsoft got hosed when they did not locate some stuff politically speaking.

Numbers:Purchase price $630KBuild costs $700KARV $1.755 bedroom ~3200sf house2 miles from Microsoft Redmond Campus Bellevue School district

.), it may be in your best interest to set up the waterfall tranches in Microsoft Excel.