Once upon a time I ran this cool little web-dev shop in a college town in the Southern US. While we did a lot of good work we also had allot of fun. There was an air hockey table, various empty and half empty Guinness pints scattered around, Rob Zombie blasting from the Ninja’s PA, Monkey Hole, Photoshoped pictures of our boss hung all over the office, etc.
One of my duties was to interview potential new coders and usually they were cool under grads, foreign born students, or clueless wanks that thought that having a degree and knowing how to use various Microsoft programs meant they had the chops to work for me…
The other type of applicant we had ( aside from that cat that looked just like Oliver Platt and told me his Photoshop skills were “magnificent” ) were wanna be yuppie young republican dudes that were a little overwhelmed and out of their depth. They would show up in a button down and tie and I would have faded jeans with a rip over the right knee and a Ernie Ball T-Shirt.
One time, this guy in black rimmed glasses, an Oxford, and penny loafers comes through the door and takes it all in. I smell the fear from the back of the office. Whanders points him in my direction after they mumble something to each other and he walks back to my area and we shake hands. And then, I swear, he says: “Is this a real business?”
In the words of our inimitable President: that’s a trick question, and I’m not going to answer it…
Everything I do in life is like that sort of. I just do what I do, that’s all I know how to do. I do what I want to do and then try and figure out a way to make it viable.
I am never going to be one of those guys that figures out how many widgets to sell so that I can franchise a business that I have no personal interest in - I do what I like to do and then try and make a business out of it. And most importantly I make sure that I can structure what I do in a way that I can have fun doing it. And even more importantly I figure out ways so that I don’t have to work for the man.
Everything is Everything
So is this a real website? Dunno, you make the call.
If you need some web development, check out what I do for a living over at http://imjtk.com