a new career path

Thomas Anderson recalled the events of the last days. Working as computer programmer at Metacortex during daytime and spending nights as a hacker, breaking into systems. He was addicted reading conspiracy theories. He hated his job even when it made him good money. He felt like a cog in a wheel. When he was called to Mr. Rhineheart's office he knew this would be no nice smalltalk. His boss was furious about him being late. Rhineheart said “This company is one of the top software companies in the world, because every single employee knows that they are part of a whole. Thus, if an employee has a problem, the company has a problem.” After that he had some kind of mental breakdown and memory lapses. He remembered being in an underground club after getting contacted by some people who knew his hacking skills. People were on the dance floor moving to the rhythm of Rob Zombie's dragula. Obviously someone wanted to hire him. The next thing which came to his mind is a guy with a black leather coat and sun glasses. He called himself Morpheus and talked about a huge conspiracy where the government and lots of others institutions were involved. Thomas's alter ego Neo hung on every word coming out of Morpheus mouth. Morpheus said "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?" In order to see the truth and become part of their group he had to swallow a red pill. Neo took the pill, swallowed it with a glass of water and reality started to blur.

Thomas woke up with the biggest hungover of his life. He had no idea how he got back to his appartment. Flashes of memory came to his mind: being in an virtual reality simulation, reality is humankind in war against the machines, superhuman powers, him being the One who rescues everybody and a love affair with the mysterious Trinity... What a trip!

He made up his mind. He couldn't go on like that. On the one hand he had a job which provided him a stable income but he wasted his talents as programmer and hated it. On the other hand he got deeper and deeper in the rabbit hole of illegal hacking and conspiracy theories. Adding to the list was his latest achievement: a fucked up **** trip. But he had an idea getting out of this mess. With his steady income as a programmer and payments for illegal hacking activities he had enough money to establish a computer game studio startup. The name would be "Rock starters studio". His crazy **** trip gave him an idea for his initial game. It would be a MMORPG with the name "The matrix".