Archive for the 'Work' Category

A New Career Path For Jacob?

It’s been a while since I posted here - life has been eventful and, in hindsight, largely very good. But if you’d asked me a month or so ago I might not have been so positive.

The local cable company I was working for got consolidated into a different multi-national conglomerate entertainment behemoth who have a very different strategy for online marketing so, in a word … I got laid off. I was a very unhappy camper for a week or two, since I’d invested a lot of time and strategic thought into the project that I had been working on.

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Wrap-Up on Chicago Trip

I got home from the Chicago trip a couple of days ago, and of course was faced with a bucket load of work and so haven’t had a chance until now to write up my trip and my reactions to it.

I’m not certain that the work was terribly effective. Full Story »

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Hitting The Road

Well it’s not a trip to California, but I will be heading out sooner than I imagined for a meeting with the design group for the new website. And hey, I’ve never been to Chicago, so I’m curious to see that town too. Full Story »

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Not Quite So Bad After All

Well, things could be better at work, but they could be worse. They definitely are going to go ahead and adjust the website so that there will be much less geeking for me. Other people in the company will now have much more responsibility for putting content on the site. However, none of them really know what they’re doing. Full Story »

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Just Go Back To Bed

Today was one of those days where I simply shouldn’t have got up. Appalling, horrendous music on my alarm clock radio, no hot water for a shower, dog pee in the hallway, and three people seemingly intent on killing me as I drove to work.

And that was the good bit of the day. Full Story »

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