Returning to Self-Employment
My full-time employment is coming to a close, and I am once again rebooting my self-employment life.
Posts tagged “career”
17 posts.
Announcing my New Full-Time Job
I have some big news: Starting December 4th, I'll be working full-time as a Senior Elixir Developer for Allovue, where they build web-based accounting software for school districts.
The Purpose of a Business is People
The primary goal of the ideal business should be to provide a long-term, welcoming and supportive environment for its workers. Worker satisfaction comes from meaningful, rewarding and sustainable work.
Resources and Suggestions to Find Elixir-based Employment
This post was originally written for my old ElixirFocus blog, and transfer here after its closure. The following is a collection of resources and suggestions for people looking to acquire full time or project specific …
The Values That Define Us
Having well-thought-out and excessively reenforced values are an extremely helpful tool to help shape and align the inevitable hard discussions and decisions that need to be made within an organization.
2019 Accomplishments and 2020 Goals
A friend recently went off on how he hates these kinds of blog posts but I can’t help myself from sharing. Yes it’s very egotistical, but you could say that about the majority of a personal blog. I also like …
2018 Retrospective; 2019 Goals
Overall 2018 was a pretty good year. The Good: 2018 marked the first full year of my self-employment comeback. I was able to maintain billable client projects the entire year. After having a few down productive months, …
Self Employment Estimate Numbers
In a world of being self-employed you need to constantly be evaluating your finances. I was lucky enough recently to finish paying off some long standing debit and so I did a revisit. Today I want to share with you how I …
Back to Full Time at IndyHall (video 5m)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRuJdIaM_sE I’m back at IndyHall full-time. What is IndyHall? It’s Philadelphia’s best coworking space. Watch to learn more. Links: http://indyhall.org https://www.instagram.com/indyhall/ …
2017 Retrospective
I’ve been kind of heads down with client work the last few months but wanted to say hi to those who still follow me here. 2017 was a bit of a sucker punch for me, but I survive. After losing my job and having a neck …
Introducing Zorn Labs LLC
As I alluded to after loosing my job at the end of January, I knew I’d take the majority of February to recover from my neck surgery and then get serious about work in March. We’ll it’s almost the end of March so I …
“For the times they are a-changing”
I am no longer an employee of Big Nerd Ranch. The news came down on Monday. I can’t speak to any of the details but suffice to say I am disappointed. I really enjoyed working at BNR. My time there was productive, for my …
My Personal Computer History, How I Came to Work on the Mac
I’m working on some other posts to recount the history of our CocoaHeads chapter. While brainstorming for it I couldn’t help but start to capture my own history and how I came to work on the Mac so I figured I’d write it …
Questions for Your Job Hunt
While looking for a new job last year I slowly built a list of questions I would ask the various companies to help better understand if they were a good fit for me. Some of these questions are ripped from other blog …
My New Job with the Big Nerd Ranch
As I posted on Twitter a few weeks ago, I recently accepted a new job with the Big Nerd Ranch. The job itself starts tomorrow and I’m really excited. The Big Nerd Ranch and its founder Aaron Hillegass have already made a …
My New Job with DmgCtrl
After almost eight years of self-employment I have decided to jump back in and as of Monday started a new job working at Damage Control (DmgCtrl) here in Philadelphia. I would suspect most people (especially those …
A Change of Scenery
After considering my options over the past few weeks, I made the move this past Sunday. It was another long Sunday night working at IndyHall, and as I finished my work, I proceeded to pack up my iMac and all of its …