It occurred to me this morning that I have almost never worked just a single job. When I was working at Berkowitz's I was also in high school. Then when I worked for Mark O'Connell I was working a variety of jobs on the one job, and I was working on the side for Jay and Lan. When I worked at Bookman's at first I was working for both Bookman in the lab and with Reeza doing networking. Then I switched over to working for Axon part of the time. At the end of that, right before Australia I was working myself like a dog with Bookman, Axon, and a big contract with Lan simultaneously. Somewhere in there I also found time to write Fret Navigator.
In Australia was the only time I was able to work just the one job. With the extra energy I went into a gym frenzy and lost 80 pounds. When I came back to the States I was working just Axon, but then I started some web work on my own to get the experience. After that I worked at Certive, which, I suppose was just a single job, but it was basically like three as Eric and I held the weight of a whole programming team on our shoulders. And if you count Mel we held the weight of an entire defective company on our shoulders.
After that during the break I did a lot of little side things. Then with Macromedia I got the first book gig and did that as the extra job. Then I started writing articles and the two more books. Now I have what I would consider the most work I have ever had going on at one time.
Currently I have:
And then burning on the back-burner somewhere is my Story project which I still think is really cool. Story is the kind of "Life's work" project that I would need a year of full-time effort to complete.
Anyway, I think I need to gear a lot of the side stuff back a few notches. It's cool to have all of this stuff running. But it's also cool to spend time with Lori and Megan and to concentrate on being a good Dad and a healthy person.
Oh, and I also have to get a few more cartridges for my freaking printer so that I can print out these article contracts! Grrr.... Won't someone please develop a low cost printer that will actually last longer than a couple hundred pages?
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