Go West, Young Man?

On the one hand I'm trying the "run my own business" thing, and it seems plainly obvious to a few that know me that it seems like a unsustainable venture on my own, at least not in the foreseeable future, even including my fits of optimism. Don't get me wrong, things are doing great, but you can't found an empire on "Hey, look at my great effort!" I probably need a good charismatic business partner at the very least to go out and secure funding and worry about debt...

Everyone keeps talking at me with some sort of effect of "When do plan to grow up?", and it's just as painfully obvious to me already that I'm long in the tooth here in school (having been obsolesced by several newer models) and I'm having a huge difficulty understanding what I need an MEng for, anyway. My Mom wants me to get it, and really that's possibly the only reason I'm sitting in this damn class listening to this boring lecture about something that I'll never need to use and even if I do everything I need to learn can be taken in a 24-hour cram session when I actually have a real application that I care about. I think I'm going to fail this class simply from lack of time enough to care...

At this point it seems pretty obvious, and I'll admit it with only a passing chagrin, that I need to move out West. It's not really a choice so much as a necessity. I love the time I've spent on the West Coast and I'd happily work for Microsoft again, but it isn't "Hey I'd like to move out west..." so ...