Got a little fed up with things. Got a little tired of chasing leads for work. I hinted to one of our three biggest clients that I was thinking of selling or closing down my web dev business and they went into a panic. They asked if I couldn't just sell it to my employees but my employees didn't want to buy it or run the business. So that customer transitioned elsewhere which was OK by me. I even helped. Most of my 10 developers have been with me since the beginning--almost 16 years ago. They've been looking for work and slowly transitioned over the last year. My two biggest contracts that got me started in this have also gone away for all the same reasons and, finally, about three weeks ago, I shut it all down. We are no more.
It's been kind of weird, too. I've always been up-to-date on everything but, now that my in-house experts don't work here, I don't have anyone to turn to that can remind me how to do things. It's amazing how much I've actually forgotten how to do--even the simple things--cause I've focused so long on doing the business end. On the web side, I adjusted one client's border and forgot whether one of the properties was required. It's gotten that bad. Even worse, I've gained 20 pounds as I can't seem to find myself enough to do and spend far too much time reading things that don't mean anything to me and watching things on television that don't mean anything to me either except catching up on movies I've missed.
So what I'm going to do now is maybe look at small web site projects I can do on my own that I'm interested in for cheap or free to friends/family/small businesses. I hope to dwell on getting involved in working on some ports that interest me. Since I grew up as an electronic engineer, I might also delve into a few projects with that.
If I start asking a lot of basic, fundamental, stupid questions, now you know why.
It's been kind of weird, too. I've always been up-to-date on everything but, now that my in-house experts don't work here, I don't have anyone to turn to that can remind me how to do things. It's amazing how much I've actually forgotten how to do--even the simple things--cause I've focused so long on doing the business end. On the web side, I adjusted one client's border and forgot whether one of the properties was required. It's gotten that bad. Even worse, I've gained 20 pounds as I can't seem to find myself enough to do and spend far too much time reading things that don't mean anything to me and watching things on television that don't mean anything to me either except catching up on movies I've missed.
So what I'm going to do now is maybe look at small web site projects I can do on my own that I'm interested in for cheap or free to friends/family/small businesses. I hope to dwell on getting involved in working on some ports that interest me. Since I grew up as an electronic engineer, I might also delve into a few projects with that.
If I start asking a lot of basic, fundamental, stupid questions, now you know why.