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2004
08/09/04 - Holy crap!!! Ok, I know, I said it before way too many times... where the hell'd the time go? Cheeze Louise! Like I have no excuses outside of Xtreme laziness! So, here's the deal, in little short bytes:
- somewhere around December '03: just did the usual doings, like working on client sites, maintaining client sites, looking for additional client sites, fretting about not enough client sites...
- somewhere around January '04: more of the same
- somewhere around February '04: more of the same
- somewhere around March '04: oh, something different... more of the same
- somewhere around April '04: ok, now this is different... worry about taxes! Oh yeah, and start working on salary for Cafepress.com!
- somewhere around May '04: ok, now things start to get a little interesting... now I'm working for a really great company, continuing my freelancing (such that it is at the moment), and beginning to feel like I have some redeeming qualities after all.
- somewhere around June '04: family complications... my mother's plight against persistent infection is taking a toll on her, on my dad, on the entire family (not really intending to make this a "blog" or a personal diary - suffice to say, family stuff happens!)
- July '04: mom had surgery late June, was recovering remarkably, and suddenly dies. Shock waves... emotional shock waves! Huge shock!!! (more info here if you're at all interested)
- continuing...: I'm more pleased about the company I'm currently working for (Cafepress.com), they're treating me better than one would expect of a "new" employeer with the usual corporate interests at stake. I'm impressed. I'm pleased. My overall job satisfaction has increased immensely. I think I got lucky in the j.o.b. thing...
- and finally...: I'm still more than please with choice of employment. Freelancing is slowly building again as the marketplace increases. Client work is still on mostly maintenence levels, but new prospects in the wings look good.
So, if you haven't noticed, I'm employed as "Team Lead and Customer Services Project Manager" for Cafepress.com, and I'm quite happy about the situation. It's a high-energy work environment with a lot of really great and talented people. I'll have a chance again to increase my corporate knowledge while adding to basic web-based skills sets. It's kinda cool to be able to slowy divulge my background to a fairly young environment... sales, marketing, client relationship management, design, development, etc. It'd be just so much self-agrandisement if it weren't for the fact that this is really a great little company with a truly superb mission and management team. It's like a "dot-com start-up" environment without the usual shallow trappings of the "dot-com start-up" mentality! Kudos to Fred Durham, the president and CEO, and his co-founder/partner, Maheesh Jain for creating such a creative-, solution-, and people-friendly environment. |
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