Why is RTX in August this year?
I just don't understand why they moved it, and it really sucks. I'm not complaining to complain, or because this is the internet and change sucks, I mean it actually sucks, for me personally. I graduate this year after four years at college, and RTX was going to be my graduation present to myself. I started saving early in my second year, some time around September of 2013, and I decided that I was going to make the most of it; great hotel room, great flight out there, great food, great people, great convention. My goal was to get $2500 so that I could do whatever I wanted without worrying about money, knowing I'd worked hard for this, and I made it over 75% of the way already.
But now it's in August, and I can't justify over an extra month of expenses for gas, food, insurance, and just plain lost time after graduation before I start job-hunting. I had planned on graduating in May and then using June to relax, and RTX as my "Big Bang" celebration before starting to actually knuckle under and get to work. Now I can't look forward to the big event I've been waiting over two years for. By the time I know whether I'll have a job or not, it'll be late July at the best, and by then it'll be too late to book hotel rooms, flights, and not to mention figure out how I'm getting a sold-out pass. Since it'll be my first year of work there would be no way to get that Thursday/Friday off, and in the field I'm going into there's no set days off for most positions, so no telling if I'd even have that Saturday or Sunday off.
Obviously at this point it's not going to change, I just don't understand why after so many years they'd be changing a convention in one of the hottest states to a hotter month, when it's been working just fine for everyone. I've seen some people say they already start school by the time RTX rolls around, others say they don't want to wait the extra month (even if it's only for one year, and then it becomes normal again), and generally not a lot of good reasons to move it. Was it a company thing? Were there legitimate complaints? I guess if I'm going to have to miss out on my "Big Bang" and just go out with a sigh I'd like to know why.
...And if you're wondering, the reason it took me three paragraphs to ask that question is, indeed, venting. But to a group that can understand me. <3 you all.
Post edited 11/02/14 6:44PM
