No, no, no um, duh, no, it's NOTHING like OS X... duh...um.. yeah
0 Comments Published by JKREW on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 9:53 AM.
hahaha what a douche.
Jason is not on the best coast this week. Trip was postponed to next week. Okes, ta!
Only around 8k on ebay... hmmm......
I just wanted to go on record
6 Comments Published by JKREW on Friday, January 26, 2007 at 10:24 AM.
by saying that I'm going to LA on monday and I'm scared shitless =(
That's all.
That's all.
Just read:
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Mistakes from the Past and Other Pieces of Career Etiquette
0 Comments Published by JKREW on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 1:55 PM.
My career as a graphic designer has had it's ups and downs. I'm not going to lie, I was the biggest egotistical bastard in my last years of college and I pretty much had free roam of the GD department. I swung the biggest cock and had the prettiest smelling shit in town.
When I graduated, I decided that I was going to be the best designer in the free world. I landed an internship at one of the hottest firms in the free world much to my surprise and tried to soak up every bit of advice and skill I could learn all the while working for free and pulling 16 hour days by choice.
After I burnt out, I landed a job with the number one ad agency in the world. I was taught by one of the best teachers/bosses I have ever had to this day. To be honest, he was the best and taught me the most. I probably think about him once a month as a matter of fact. We had a falling out (to this day I don't know why) but that's another post in the blog all together.
Those were the dotcom days where people crapped money and pissed IPO's. Life was good. And then it turned bad. Four rounds of layoffs finally caught up with me and I was given the boot.
I think I can pretty much mark the downfall of my career at that point. When sweet, cocky and innocent Jason was turned into a jaded, bitter and sub par designer. My faith in my own abilities slowly turned to the wayside of slacking and mediocre work.
I got a job temping at the Discovery Channel which turned into a year of work and then finally I was let go yet again due to 1) not getting along with my boss 2) not being gay and 3) Discovery eats it's designers up and spits them out and 4) please read previous paragraph.
After Discovery I went to a small boutique an hour commute away from home. I took a pay cut for that job, worked more than I had ever worked before and probably created some of my best stuff towards the end of that job in my life in terms of fine art graphic design. (Please note, my studies focused on chaos design through school so this was all new to me.)
And then I broke. My girlfriend at the time left me, I was deep in a horrible depression, thought of suicide a few times and was drinking myself into an early grave. I was burnt out, creatively dead inside and just wanted to give up. I quit my job and just floundered around until I was asked to take a risk on a small startup working out of the basement of one of the owners homes.
It was a risk to say the least. This was the job that I took for the following reasons:
1) the commute was 15 minutes as opposed to the hour+ I had previously driven
2) the pay was commensurate to what I was making at the Discovery Channel
3) the work was the most mind-numbingly boring work I had ever done before in my life and I was fine with that. I wasn't looking to be challenged.
The funny thing was, I bragged about those reasons every time I talked about the job. The owners were three friends who decided to one day make a go at business ownership so on paper, it seemed pretty cool to test out. Sadly, I wasn't challenged and butted heads every step of the way because, in my opinion, a micromanaging, fear-mongering employer doesn't really foster creativity.
After about a year or so, the job started to go south. As much as I really LOVED one of the three bosses to death as well as every one of the underlings there, there was one of the owners who was just a bad manager and read far too many books written by human resource managers... You know what? It's not even worth it. Lesson learned for talking shit about your bosses.
That's rule number one (and take notes here): What goes around, comes around. This industry is so small that when/if you talk shit about your co-workers or bosses, it will ultimately come back to bite you in the ass. That being said, kharma's a blood sucking whore and things get paid back in weird little ways. While one person is finally on track with their life again, making beautifully designed work, another person could be stuck in a dead end and failing business.
Bygones.
After that, it was on to Ogilvy, another great ad agency in DC. But man, was this place odd. It was pretty much the EXACT OPPOSITE to what any firm I had been with before. There was absolutely NO creative coming out of it. The higher ups ran the show and the actual designers cowered and talked shit about the bosses while hiding under their desks.
It was a shame too because I was totally out of my element until I decided to stop playing PC (like that's never been a problem for me in the past *winks) and just started being myself. I took risks, I made comments and pretty much got my cockyness back. I tried to bring fun to that place and to lighten the mood but the higher ups were just too controlling of it's employees. It just didn't take and I parted ways. It was also a shame because there were several employees who were just outright talented and gifted there. Sadly, those people's talent are probably still going unrewarded to this day.
And then I got my dream job. I finally got to work for VW and do what I loved. I was surrounded by some of the best people I have ever worked with in my life. I go to lunch with the same group everyday and we are a fucking team through and through. I do love it here but depressingly so, the work is starting to dry up. I'm doing what I can to get new work but as VW is phased out from the companies list of clients, I am left (along with most of my team) looking for shit to keep busy with. Only time will tell but I'm trying to stay optimistic.
With that being said, I just want to tell my loyal readers that life really is a rollercoaster. It's about the journey and all sorts of other trite sayings about life.
Since graduation, I've had:
• the ad agency job
• the small boutique job
• the tv channel (money is no object) job
• the small startup job
• the highly corporate job
• the fun dot-com-esque job
I've had my work published in national newspapers, international magazines and have had work shown on major primetime television. I've worked with some of the most brilliant people in the industry. I've gotten to experience some of the best perks because of said jobs and have been to places and seen things I would never be able to see on my own.
But ya know what? ALL of that stuff is overshadowed by finally finding out that none of it matters if you don't learn from the experience. Did it take me longer than others? Sure. Is there another lifetime of skills and lessons to be learned? You betcha.
Do I feel I have learned enough to at least get on a good track in life as well as career? I dunno, I'll tell ya in another ten years.
When I graduated, I decided that I was going to be the best designer in the free world. I landed an internship at one of the hottest firms in the free world much to my surprise and tried to soak up every bit of advice and skill I could learn all the while working for free and pulling 16 hour days by choice.
After I burnt out, I landed a job with the number one ad agency in the world. I was taught by one of the best teachers/bosses I have ever had to this day. To be honest, he was the best and taught me the most. I probably think about him once a month as a matter of fact. We had a falling out (to this day I don't know why) but that's another post in the blog all together.
Those were the dotcom days where people crapped money and pissed IPO's. Life was good. And then it turned bad. Four rounds of layoffs finally caught up with me and I was given the boot.
I think I can pretty much mark the downfall of my career at that point. When sweet, cocky and innocent Jason was turned into a jaded, bitter and sub par designer. My faith in my own abilities slowly turned to the wayside of slacking and mediocre work.
I got a job temping at the Discovery Channel which turned into a year of work and then finally I was let go yet again due to 1) not getting along with my boss 2) not being gay and 3) Discovery eats it's designers up and spits them out and 4) please read previous paragraph.
After Discovery I went to a small boutique an hour commute away from home. I took a pay cut for that job, worked more than I had ever worked before and probably created some of my best stuff towards the end of that job in my life in terms of fine art graphic design. (Please note, my studies focused on chaos design through school so this was all new to me.)
And then I broke. My girlfriend at the time left me, I was deep in a horrible depression, thought of suicide a few times and was drinking myself into an early grave. I was burnt out, creatively dead inside and just wanted to give up. I quit my job and just floundered around until I was asked to take a risk on a small startup working out of the basement of one of the owners homes.
It was a risk to say the least. This was the job that I took for the following reasons:
1) the commute was 15 minutes as opposed to the hour+ I had previously driven
2) the pay was commensurate to what I was making at the Discovery Channel
3) the work was the most mind-numbingly boring work I had ever done before in my life and I was fine with that. I wasn't looking to be challenged.
The funny thing was, I bragged about those reasons every time I talked about the job. The owners were three friends who decided to one day make a go at business ownership so on paper, it seemed pretty cool to test out. Sadly, I wasn't challenged and butted heads every step of the way because, in my opinion, a micromanaging, fear-mongering employer doesn't really foster creativity.
After about a year or so, the job started to go south. As much as I really LOVED one of the three bosses to death as well as every one of the underlings there, there was one of the owners who was just a bad manager and read far too many books written by human resource managers... You know what? It's not even worth it. Lesson learned for talking shit about your bosses.
That's rule number one (and take notes here): What goes around, comes around. This industry is so small that when/if you talk shit about your co-workers or bosses, it will ultimately come back to bite you in the ass. That being said, kharma's a blood sucking whore and things get paid back in weird little ways. While one person is finally on track with their life again, making beautifully designed work, another person could be stuck in a dead end and failing business.
Bygones.
After that, it was on to Ogilvy, another great ad agency in DC. But man, was this place odd. It was pretty much the EXACT OPPOSITE to what any firm I had been with before. There was absolutely NO creative coming out of it. The higher ups ran the show and the actual designers cowered and talked shit about the bosses while hiding under their desks.
It was a shame too because I was totally out of my element until I decided to stop playing PC (like that's never been a problem for me in the past *winks) and just started being myself. I took risks, I made comments and pretty much got my cockyness back. I tried to bring fun to that place and to lighten the mood but the higher ups were just too controlling of it's employees. It just didn't take and I parted ways. It was also a shame because there were several employees who were just outright talented and gifted there. Sadly, those people's talent are probably still going unrewarded to this day.
And then I got my dream job. I finally got to work for VW and do what I loved. I was surrounded by some of the best people I have ever worked with in my life. I go to lunch with the same group everyday and we are a fucking team through and through. I do love it here but depressingly so, the work is starting to dry up. I'm doing what I can to get new work but as VW is phased out from the companies list of clients, I am left (along with most of my team) looking for shit to keep busy with. Only time will tell but I'm trying to stay optimistic.
With that being said, I just want to tell my loyal readers that life really is a rollercoaster. It's about the journey and all sorts of other trite sayings about life.
Since graduation, I've had:
• the ad agency job
• the small boutique job
• the tv channel (money is no object) job
• the small startup job
• the highly corporate job
• the fun dot-com-esque job
I've had my work published in national newspapers, international magazines and have had work shown on major primetime television. I've worked with some of the most brilliant people in the industry. I've gotten to experience some of the best perks because of said jobs and have been to places and seen things I would never be able to see on my own.
But ya know what? ALL of that stuff is overshadowed by finally finding out that none of it matters if you don't learn from the experience. Did it take me longer than others? Sure. Is there another lifetime of skills and lessons to be learned? You betcha.
Do I feel I have learned enough to at least get on a good track in life as well as career? I dunno, I'll tell ya in another ten years.
Diego Marcilla had returned with great riches and with the intent of marrying Isabel. Diego had not counted the day in which he petitioned Isabel’s father whereas the Seguras had. Diego ran to the feet of Isabel and pleaded with her to marry him. Isabel refused, for it was impossible; she had already wed. Then Diego pleaded for just one kiss so that at least he could go on in the world, and this request Isabel refused. Upon hearing this Diego could not bear the separation between himself and his love, and with a sigh he died on the feet of his beloved Isabel. The next day, during the funeral for Diego Marcilla, Isabel showed up dressed in her wedding dress. She proceeded to walk to the front of the church and place a kiss on the man whom she had refused but in doing so Isabel died, falling prostrate on the body of the man whom she loved.
It's the circle of life I guess
0 Comments Published by JKREW on Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 7:26 PM.
But after buying the same exact model VW as my first VW is really fucking cool to me. Sure it's the high end model that I ALWAYS wanted when I was in college, my mom knew damn well that if she got me a V6 I would end up dead or in jail so I understand where she was coming from.
It's just a little strange... all the odd memories I have of the first car that really got me interested into cars is all coming back to me. The little buttons are exactly where they were 7 years ago. All the little idiosynchrisies are still there, the same smell is still there etc etc.
I dunno, it just makes me smile a bit. I think this project is going to be special. And to top it all off, I get to share it with a GF who actually gives a poop about cars.
Oh, that and I had the best day in many moons with kate. But no details about that because that's my own memory to keep =)
"gheeey"
It's just a little strange... all the odd memories I have of the first car that really got me interested into cars is all coming back to me. The little buttons are exactly where they were 7 years ago. All the little idiosynchrisies are still there, the same smell is still there etc etc.
I dunno, it just makes me smile a bit. I think this project is going to be special. And to top it all off, I get to share it with a GF who actually gives a poop about cars.
Oh, that and I had the best day in many moons with kate. But no details about that because that's my own memory to keep =)
"gheeey"
"YOU WANT TO SQUARE UP? OKAY. GOOD LUCK, MAN"
0 Comments Published by JKREW on Friday, January 19, 2007 at 1:35 PM.Just beautiful. Wait till the middle of the video to hear them talk hahahaha
(thanks to my little curly-haired furnace)
(thanks to MJ for the linkz)
Yeah, us mac nerds may be crazy and eccentric but if you can name one single person who gets excited about a Microsoft product then I'll shut my yap. $500 for a phone? Why the fuck not. It comes with a 2 year plan for cingular in the price.
Oh and not to mention apple reported a profit of a cool billion dollars this quarter. BILLION. With a B. Nine zeros.
Oh and not to mention apple reported a profit of a cool billion dollars this quarter. BILLION. With a B. Nine zeros.
You know you have issues if...
1 Comments Published by JKREW on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 8:13 PM.
one of the bathrooms in your home is unusable due to two sets of rare wheels being stored in it.
I made it through Hostel with no problems but for fucks sake, this is painful to watch =(
www.king5.com/kiraw_011607portlandhomevid.wmv
www.king5.com/kiraw_011607portlandhomevid.wmv
heeeeeeello? calling Jason, where are you? you're no where to be found...
If you know of anyone who fits this bill, send em my way. I'm offering a finders fee if it works out.
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/bar/263294518.html
Thanks!
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/bar/263294518.html
Thanks!
2 points if you got the Labrinth quote...
(you can't play kate =p)
Overnight, I became bored as sin
1 Comments Published by JKREW on Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 9:34 PM.
For some reason, the daily ritual of me sitting on my ass and watching a movie at night whilst drinking wine/beer has become boring to me.
I tried tonight. I really did. I wanted to just relax (even though I'm not tired after a FANTASTIC weekend of moping around the house with the lil lady and napping and rolling around in bed. But while I had High Tension playing on the tv with beer in hand, I figured out 20 minutes through that:
a) High Tension is a horribly slow movie
b) Red Stripe has lost it's appeal to me
c) I was really, REALLY bored
So, do you know what I did?
I vaccuumed.
And took out the trash.
And played with the dog.
And now I think I'm going to fold some clothes.
When did I become old?
I tried tonight. I really did. I wanted to just relax (even though I'm not tired after a FANTASTIC weekend of moping around the house with the lil lady and napping and rolling around in bed. But while I had High Tension playing on the tv with beer in hand, I figured out 20 minutes through that:
a) High Tension is a horribly slow movie
b) Red Stripe has lost it's appeal to me
c) I was really, REALLY bored
So, do you know what I did?
I vaccuumed.
And took out the trash.
And played with the dog.
And now I think I'm going to fold some clothes.
When did I become old?
This "traffic jam" held motorists up for two hours hahahaha
Dear Jason,
You refund has been processed. Please allow 3-5 business days to clear. Thank you for your time and patience. Have a wonderful day.
We appreciate your business and hope that you choose Overnight Prints in the future for all your printing needs. If you have any additional questions please feel free to contact us. Please include all previous correspondence and your invoice number
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Thank you,
Amanda
yeah, I'll be sure to order with you again... no.
You refund has been processed. Please allow 3-5 business days to clear. Thank you for your time and patience. Have a wonderful day.
We appreciate your business and hope that you choose Overnight Prints in the future for all your printing needs. If you have any additional questions please feel free to contact us. Please include all previous correspondence and your invoice number
when contacting Overnight Prints.
Thank you,
Amanda
yeah, I'll be sure to order with you again... no.
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LGM-118A Peacekeeper missile system being tested at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The lines shown are re-entry vehicles -- one Peacekeeper missle can hold up to 10 nuclear warheads, each independently targeted. Were the warheads armed with a nuclear payload, each would carry with it the explosive power of twenty-five Hiroshima-sized weapons.
Sorry for the lack of updates folks
1 Comments Published by JKREW on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 9:15 PM.
I promise you, the level of slacking will go back to normal in the next few days.
But for now, here is a small bulleted list of things that catch my fancy lately in no particular order:
• new project cars
• kate
• naps with kate
• macaroni's coding abilities
• finishing massive projects for jkrate
• sleeping
• more naps with kate
• Billy Idol
• Regarding the move of Great Britain to the euro; will the strains resulting from attempting to unite differing economies under one currency and with one interest rate damage the prospects of economic development, or will the long term effect be to pull the weaker economies up to a level closer to that of the more prosperous thus improving the prospects for the whole of Europe?
• Eddie Murphy's attempt at a pop radio song
• adding intelligent debate questions to bulleted lists so to sound smart and score with kate
But for now, here is a small bulleted list of things that catch my fancy lately in no particular order:
• new project cars
• kate
• naps with kate
• macaroni's coding abilities
• finishing massive projects for jkrate
• sleeping
• more naps with kate
• Billy Idol
• Regarding the move of Great Britain to the euro; will the strains resulting from attempting to unite differing economies under one currency and with one interest rate damage the prospects of economic development, or will the long term effect be to pull the weaker economies up to a level closer to that of the more prosperous thus improving the prospects for the whole of Europe?
• Eddie Murphy's attempt at a pop radio song
• adding intelligent debate questions to bulleted lists so to sound smart and score with kate
To whom it may concern,
I'm writing this email to request a full refund for two of my latest orders:
1/3/2007
# 33432473
$277.35
1/3/2007
# 78418588
$447.34
My COMPLETE order of business cards (#33432473) are covered in yellow specs
http://www.jkrew.com/work/cards.jpg and are completely unsusable.
The brochure job I ordered (#78418588) last Wednesday and was meant to be
shipped overnight on Monday wasn't even shipped out by the time this email
was written on Wednesday. Not one email telling me it wasn't being shipped
out. Not one phone call telling me you all had complications with your
press.
I have been a loyal customer for over two years now and this is by far my
worst experience with any print vendor ever. Please notify me by phone or
email when my refund has been made.
Regards,
Jason Kress
p.s. overnightprints.com can eat a dripping bag of dicks.
I'm writing this email to request a full refund for two of my latest orders:
1/3/2007
# 33432473
$277.35
1/3/2007
# 78418588
$447.34
My COMPLETE order of business cards (#33432473) are covered in yellow specs
http://www.jkrew.com/work/cards.jpg and are completely unsusable.
The brochure job I ordered (#78418588) last Wednesday and was meant to be
shipped overnight on Monday wasn't even shipped out by the time this email
was written on Wednesday. Not one email telling me it wasn't being shipped
out. Not one phone call telling me you all had complications with your
press.
I have been a loyal customer for over two years now and this is by far my
worst experience with any print vendor ever. Please notify me by phone or
email when my refund has been made.
Regards,
Jason Kress
p.s. overnightprints.com can eat a dripping bag of dicks.
I know it may seem silly to you but ugh... =( Sometimes I miss her so much...
hahahaha Yeah, sorry, I'm weird *sniff
hahahaha Yeah, sorry, I'm weird *sniff
I just wanted to take a moment out of the day...
0 Comments Published by JKREW on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 at 7:51 PM.
to thank kate and pretty much everyone that's behind us in this whole jkrate thing. Kate especially. She was thrown into the business deep end and she is rocking the casbah with her abilities to handle just about every trafficing aspect of the business. All with no experience! It's pretty fun so far teaching her how the process works and I am quite impressed that I have soaked up the amount I have in the short time I've been in this industry. Working at Arnold right out of school is probably one of the most important and fulfilling decisions of my young life so far.
And hell, I don't see what the issue is when people complain about the business. It's pretty fucking easy. I mean, easy so far. That's until I have to start keeping records of money and rights and licenses and all that un-neccecary crap that no one needs anyways. What taxes?!
Well, that's it. Gonna go pass out now. We fucking earned out money today =)
p.s. spell checking is for pussies. Plus I'm too tired. Sorry.
And hell, I don't see what the issue is when people complain about the business. It's pretty fucking easy. I mean, easy so far. That's until I have to start keeping records of money and rights and licenses and all that un-neccecary crap that no one needs anyways. What taxes?!
Well, that's it. Gonna go pass out now. We fucking earned out money today =)
p.s. spell checking is for pussies. Plus I'm too tired. Sorry.
jkrewdotcom: I was thinking about media stunts we can do to get our name out
Macaroni: tatoo a pig
jkrewdotcom: like spending some money and hiring 100 clowns to march down M street during rush hour
Macaroni: 100 clowns?
jkrewdotcom: all the while parading a tattood pig down the street at the same time
Macaroni: clowns are like... $150 an hour dude
but i like the idea
jkrewdotcom: dude, I'm sure we know 100 people who would do it for beer money and a pair of kates panties
Macaroni: well... I know a trick
1) go to Target
2) Buy red panties (cotton ones, they hold the smell better)
3) Buy 5 cans of tuna fish
jkrewdotcom: p.s. Air Supply just came on the radio and it PERFECTLY compliments this conversation
Macaroni: 4) take it all home and crack open the tuna (but do not fully open!)
5) drip just like 3 or 4 drops on the the crotch of eatch panty
jkrewdotcom: hahahaha christ
Macaroni: any more and they'll know it's tuna fish, any less and they won't think it was worn
6) sell for profit and pay off clowns
jkrewdotcom: man, kate is gonna be pissed, not only does she LOATHE clowns, she only has like 5 pairs of underwear.
Macaroni: tatoo a pig
jkrewdotcom: like spending some money and hiring 100 clowns to march down M street during rush hour
Macaroni: 100 clowns?
jkrewdotcom: all the while parading a tattood pig down the street at the same time
Macaroni: clowns are like... $150 an hour dude
but i like the idea
jkrewdotcom: dude, I'm sure we know 100 people who would do it for beer money and a pair of kates panties
Macaroni: well... I know a trick
1) go to Target
2) Buy red panties (cotton ones, they hold the smell better)
3) Buy 5 cans of tuna fish
jkrewdotcom: p.s. Air Supply just came on the radio and it PERFECTLY compliments this conversation
Macaroni: 4) take it all home and crack open the tuna (but do not fully open!)
5) drip just like 3 or 4 drops on the the crotch of eatch panty
jkrewdotcom: hahahaha christ
Macaroni: any more and they'll know it's tuna fish, any less and they won't think it was worn
6) sell for profit and pay off clowns
jkrewdotcom: man, kate is gonna be pissed, not only does she LOATHE clowns, she only has like 5 pairs of underwear.
Record co's seek $1.65 trillion from AllOfMP3.com
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I'll just type that again... ONE POINT SIX FIVE TRILLION... BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah, good luck with that one guys...
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I'll just type that again... ONE POINT SIX FIVE TRILLION... BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah, good luck with that one guys...
Pretty dope video of the space hotrod =)
JKREW's adventures in business ownership
0 Comments Published by JKREW on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 at 10:48 AM.
Rule #1: The difference between having a job and owning a job is the fact that when the end of the day comes around, if you have a job, work ends when you leave your desk. If you own a job, work just doesn't end.
Don't get me wrong, I'm FINALLY back in the swing of things after a grueling week of complacency. Last week sucked ass. I just couldn't get in the designer's seat to start work on our first large client's web design project. Maybe I was scared. Well, I'm pretty sure I was scared but the best way to get over that feeling is to just sit down and start. Even if it sucks, it starts something ya know? I worked all weekend long, ditching kate and the rents and pretty much everyone, just to sit on my ass in my freezing condo with no lights on, working in the dark.
I was at lunch yesterday with mom and pops and we were going over the fact that during this time two months ago, I would usually roll out of bed on a weekend, hungover and unshaven to just sit around all day with kate and run stupid errands or go to DC to walk around and waste time with eachother. Now I get up, still hungover and unshaven, but now I work on client projects, or design a new way of getting the name out to potential clients.
It's strange how fast this thing has taken off. I thank god for the job I have and the leniency they give me here when things are slow. I wouldn't even have had the opportunity to get jkrate started if I was at another job. I truly am blessed or whatever it is that has given me the good fortune I have lately. I have a wonderful GF turned business partner turned parent to my ADD-ass. I have an awesome set of rents who are quite supportive in this endeavor of mine. I have a great place to live, a running car that I love, decent health that is on the upswing, a mouth without cavities (finally), a bank account that is finally not overdrawn, a brilliant coder who doesn't mind putting up with my backwards design choices that would give any other backend coder nightmares and the best dog in the world (who is currently grounded for stealing chicken from the trashcan).
The cool thing about starting up jkrate is that it's pretty fucking fun. The money is pretty much non-existent at the moment but even when it starts coming in on a regular basis, I think the main thing I want out of this is to just create something of my very own that I can work with for many years to come. I want to be the boss. I want to make the rules.
I wouldn't mind being able to work in my underwear too.
Happy new years folks =)
Don't get me wrong, I'm FINALLY back in the swing of things after a grueling week of complacency. Last week sucked ass. I just couldn't get in the designer's seat to start work on our first large client's web design project. Maybe I was scared. Well, I'm pretty sure I was scared but the best way to get over that feeling is to just sit down and start. Even if it sucks, it starts something ya know? I worked all weekend long, ditching kate and the rents and pretty much everyone, just to sit on my ass in my freezing condo with no lights on, working in the dark.
I was at lunch yesterday with mom and pops and we were going over the fact that during this time two months ago, I would usually roll out of bed on a weekend, hungover and unshaven to just sit around all day with kate and run stupid errands or go to DC to walk around and waste time with eachother. Now I get up, still hungover and unshaven, but now I work on client projects, or design a new way of getting the name out to potential clients.
It's strange how fast this thing has taken off. I thank god for the job I have and the leniency they give me here when things are slow. I wouldn't even have had the opportunity to get jkrate started if I was at another job. I truly am blessed or whatever it is that has given me the good fortune I have lately. I have a wonderful GF turned business partner turned parent to my ADD-ass. I have an awesome set of rents who are quite supportive in this endeavor of mine. I have a great place to live, a running car that I love, decent health that is on the upswing, a mouth without cavities (finally), a bank account that is finally not overdrawn, a brilliant coder who doesn't mind putting up with my backwards design choices that would give any other backend coder nightmares and the best dog in the world (who is currently grounded for stealing chicken from the trashcan).
The cool thing about starting up jkrate is that it's pretty fucking fun. The money is pretty much non-existent at the moment but even when it starts coming in on a regular basis, I think the main thing I want out of this is to just create something of my very own that I can work with for many years to come. I want to be the boss. I want to make the rules.
I wouldn't mind being able to work in my underwear too.
Happy new years folks =)
