first, the techy nerd update: I went on a bit of a spending spree and bought a RAM upgrade (up to 2 GBs now) for my macbook. the difference is amazing!!! I’m much happier with the performance of my baby now. hey, look at that, i’m using terms of endearment. it must be love.
I also bought a canon mp460 off of my friend for cheap. so, I decided since i saved money that i would splurge on the bluetooth wireless adapter. WHeeee! Now I can print things from my laptop from anywhere in the room. I haven’t tested yet to see if i can print from the living room, but that would be awesome.
and then, the updated RESUME. I’ve been busier than ever before (well, some finals weeks back in college were pretty bad, but at least now i’m getting paid for what i do) working all day long for Arnold and then going home and working on stuff for the awesome folks at Rainbow Media. I’m tired.
I also realize how much better it is to work from home. Freelancing full time is a weird stress: great to have people to talk to and interact with, but sucky to be sitting at a desk knowing you’re getting paid to sit there and get things done but not always having things to do or not always wanting to be working at full speed. I’ve become a fan of project rate pricing, because I can goof off all i want, guilt free, as long as i get stuff done.
Filed under: career
wow, I let the whole month of February go by without posting! This isn’t entirely due to laziness, though certainly that is a factor. I visited new york at the beginning of the month to meet with a client (which was so awesome!) and came back and got deathly sick. I was pretty much bed-ridden for 3 weeks, even visited the ER, but I managed to get the project done completely on time, thank goodness.
Since being sick I’ve slowly started going out again (dancing, of course) and I’ve been getting a lot of leads on freelance gigs. I took a contract job with Arnold, working on their theTruth.com campaign. It looks like I’ll be taking some flat files and translating them into the first round of Flash movieclips with some basic movement and interaction, then passing that on to a hardcore back-end programmer dude. This kind of work sounds like the perfect happy place for a designer with an engineering degree 
. To do this I had to turn down a couple projects with people I’d love to work with. I wish I could do it all!
I’ve also had the glorious experience of being contacted for full-time positions. VisibleMeasures, a Brightcove partner, would have been an exciting and great fit but I was just too busy. And amazingly, through this very blog, mediumbold found me and suggested I come in for an interview for a web developer position. HOORAY INTERNETS!
It’s all moving so fast, I’ve only been free from Brightcove for a month (healthy for only a week) and already I’m busier than I’ve ever been (possibly ever wanted to be). It feels like when you break up after a long relationship and think to yourself “I think I’ll just enjoy being single for a while” and then all these amazing hot guys come out of nowhere to make you offers you cant refuse. It’s exactly like that. You know, if you replace “hot guys” with “nerdy techy guys.”
