2008: A Personal Summary
- Started 16 years ago
- Last post 16 years ago
- 29 Responses
- Nairn0
After nearly 3 years of paddling and 18 months of pure protracted fuck up, I finally kicked myself up the arse.
New place, new friends, new direction, new hope.
All in time for the Mighty Credit Crunch. Ah, so fuck, it'll all come good.
Eventually.
- locustsloth0
Found a freelance client
Wife got sicker
Started working at home exclusively
Found QBN
Decreased my role at the studio i worked at
Increased my role in my clients productions
Ended up making 50% more per hour with client than with studio
- Point50
- rims got stolen
- shaved my beard
- mountain biked the best a rookie mountain biker could
- bought a re-furbished iMac
- my baby girl (3rd child) was born
- took off 3 months from the gym to take on more freelance work... hence, got fat and lazy
- dropped iPhone in toilet; forced to purchase 3G
- started drinking lattes
- was in Carson City, NV for Halloween, saw a kid trick-or-treating in black face... I LOL'd
- gave up eating land-roaming animals for almost 5 months now
- grew a beard
- Point50
- began hating shitty job even more
- got job offer in Seattle
- job offer fell thru thanks to speculative economy
- still at shitty job
- benfal990
- visited Paris with gf
- dump gf
- sold the house
- made money by selling the house
- moving in apartement by myself
- keep repeating myself "do I took the right decision?"
- spend a lot of time on QBN since november after a couple years of hiatus
- keep asking myself "where am i going now?"HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- ********0
fulfilled last year's new year's resolution of living through the year (if I make it through the next few hours)
- nadanada0
- got a lot of new clients
- found out most of them were idiots
- dealt with them anyway, little piece of soul died
- got paid, though
- ate too much korean bbq
- drank too much stella
- dated too many idiots
- loved every minute (mostly)
- dyspl0
worst year I ever had.
missed the job I've always dreamed about,
missed another great job.
my gf moved 10000km away from me for 8month. (should be back in 2month)oh, and most part of the year without any money.
- jamble0
* carried on freelancing, it's alright.
* getting ready to be a dad in feb 09, hugely excited