So I've been in a sort of holding pattern in Adult for sometime now. I have my daily work down to about 15 minutes a day and some very reliable Fi;lipino employees that work their asses off. I haven't been doing much or really any adult development and took most of this year off. Climbed for the entire spring and summer as much as possible and focused on Jiu Jitsu and what not.
Now that the bad Weather is here I've been kind of bored. Well not so much bored, but unchallenged I guess. Before I was in Adult, I was a process engineer, programmer, database architect and project manager. I kind of miss building things but couldn't imagine going back to any sort of corporate enviorment or 9-5 day job. I figured, well why not open up a mainstream consulting and automation company.
I develop strict in the .NET world. I remember starting with Microsoft Databases as an original Access beta tester. These days the fusion of SQL Server, Exchange, Infopath, IIS, C#, VB etc etc makes things a whole lot easier. It's actually pretty amazing how integrated everything is these days. Since I started taking clients last month I've had a fairly steady stream of clients for all kinds of tasks from a custom CRM to database auditing and design. Even did an Adult project to auto extract thumbnails and http post movies from their file output directly on to a tube site.
Been interesting but hectic. Hoping to hire one or two people soon as the work load has been building. Be curious to see just how large of company I can build this in to.
Anyone else take on a totally new direction or projects that you wouldn't normally consider in the last little while? I think for me the change has been good. I've been a lot more motivated and interested in my work these last few weeks for sure.
