Tell me your story
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- blaw0
A few years ago, when freelancing was filling every evening and weekend, I decided to quit my full-time position. The plan was to work out of my home office and use any down time to work on my house.
What I didn't anticipate was the volume of people I'd met or worked for/with that, upon hearing of my availability, would contact me with work. Very quickly I found myself in a position to either start turning down work or expand the operation.
It was my opinion at the time that not everyone gets this chance, so I decided on the latter. I started shopping for real estate, found a run-down building I could get for a song and set about remodeling/repairing it with my wife and the help of family and friends.
We opened the doors in 2008 with me and an entry-level designer I'd hired. In 2009 the day-to-day management was getting out of hand, so my wife quit her job as a software developer and works as our project manager/office manager/developer. We've just began the recruitinig process to fill another position.
I never did get that much work done on my house.
- sounds sweet. everything all right with you and the missus working together?Amicus