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Our departure, noted
Jul. 12th, 2007 10:39 pmThe City Newspaper printed a letter from our friend Jon "Far" McKamey:
Rottenchester has a good reply to this article on someone elses blog. He says, in part: "Jon is going to Philly, Rob is going to Asheville, NC, and Adam is going to Minneapolis. Each of these places is quite different from Rochester. Is there something they have in common that Rochester doesn’t? Other than being the next adventure for three creative minds, I don’t see it."
REGION: Another young adult heads outI had kind of hoped to avoid this angle regarding my depature. It belies our boosterism. It is both true and untrue that the "opportunities simply aren't [t]here;" the vacuum itself was opportunity. The very fact that the departure of our group of friends from that city is being discussed in its weekly paper illustrates something desirable about the place.
On May. 29th, 2007
As one of the organizers for RocWiki, the thing that struck me most when I read the RocWiki article was terrible hemorrhaging of talent from Rochester. All of those crazy and ambitious people that started RocWiki.org (Ry Dahl, Tobin Fricke, Rob Polyn, myself) are going elsewhere. Ry and Tobin left last year; Rob and I are leaving within a month. Of the five to six or so regular "under 30" contributors I know, three (including administrator Adam Dewitz) are leaving Rochester this summer too.
This is some pretty sad math for Rochester. As a 20-something leaving, I hope our projects, organizations, and businesses help this city retain its 20-something talent of future generations. I love this city. We all do. But the opportunities simply aren't here. From all of us who have to leave to follow our dreams, I'd like to say "Good luck, Rochester. We love 'ya, but it just didn't work out."
Jon "FarMcKon" McKamey, South Plymouth Avenue, Rochester(McKamey is a software developer who has worked for Imaginant Inc in Pittsford. He and his wife are moving to Philadelphia, where she will work for the Academy of Natural Science, and, McKamey says he hopes he'll found a start-up company.)
Rottenchester has a good reply to this article on someone elses blog. He says, in part: "Jon is going to Philly, Rob is going to Asheville, NC, and Adam is going to Minneapolis. Each of these places is quite different from Rochester. Is there something they have in common that Rochester doesn’t? Other than being the next adventure for three creative minds, I don’t see it."
