Apparently in all the confusion of leaving my position with Kolody, starting my position with MacLaren McCann, designing another watch for Scott Wilk and continuing my work with Displacer, I simply stopped posting on my blog. I suck. And apologize. Hopefully in the next few weeks I can get my blogging legs under me as [...]
As a former smoker, I know one thing. It’s not the first smoke I have that will get me smoking again. That first cigarette will suck. It’ll remind me that it takes actual effort to pull smoke down my throat and fill my lungs with poison. That first smoke will hurt. It’ll make me dizzy. [...]
On April 16th, I started my new position as Technical Director for Kolody, Inc! I am very enthusiastic and optimistic about this company and it’s two partners; Mark Kolody and Colin Turnbull They have a drive for doing what hasn’t been done. The latest of which is being part of a multi-agency campaign for Dove [...]
Downtime: Everyone I know who is self employed goes through a period of work scarcity at some point in their career. I’ve been there. It was the best thing that could’ve happened to me. I was young, I took things for granted, didn’t appreciate things and I needed some humbling. Plan for this. One of [...]
Searching for work: When I first started out in self employment by virtue of my skill set, I was basically stuck in one vertical. I have learned from other consultants to strategically gain experience in as many different verticals and industries as possible. You don’t want to get stuck in a niche or stuck in [...]
I’m very grateful to Hugh to allowing me to post on his blog. Thanks, Hugh. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore” -Andre Gide Different people call it different things: freelancing, contracting, consulting. More broadly defined, it is self-employment. I became self-employed, not by choice, but [...]
I am Repetitive In my two previous end of year posts, the first sentence tells that I had a strange year. Mostly due to the transition to freelance and all that entails. This year I was fully prepared for how weird freelancing is and was ready to rock and roll the highs and lows. So [...]
The Freelance Series: Taking the “Home” out of “Home Office”
29-Feb-12I recently asked on Twitter if anyone had any opinions on my next blog entry concerning freelance life and Joel Stransky wrote “I’d be interested to hear about disturbance agreements you have with your family.”. Therefore, Joel, this post’s for you. Make a space My situation is one where I staked out one room in [...]