Even years

Not a fan of even years.  In fact I'm pretty sure this rant has been published before but it's time again. Made it to the end of April this year before stuff started to go south again.

I don't pretend to say that I expect life or work to be easy, but it is incredibly frustrating to have to drop everything I'm doing to manage a crisis that was created due to inaction or a failure to share critical information.  A real crisis is one thing, a crisis manufactured by inaction is another.  For some reason my view of the even year issues tend to be the latter.

Freelance Growth

So, 2015 was my best freelance year since 1998.

1998 is when I went back to work full-time so that I could stop working night/weekends and spend time with my family.  Most of the work from 1998-2014 were special projects that I did when tuition was due or when there was a conference in Buffalo etc.  Then last year my family got so busy that I had a lot of free nights and weekends to work at home again.

So, now I balance my full-time job with a lot of really interesting freelance projects.  The internet has created opportunities for me that I never could have imagined when I started to phase away from doing that freelance stuff full-time. Now I can see huge potential in the future and I'm really excited about where it is going.