135. Going through Changes
It's been more than a year since I've posted on this site, and the whole thing has been a broken mess the entire time. Like a lot of people in the business, I've been busy. Between working full time, fitting in freelance work, and fitting in my personal life, there's been little time to write blog posts and update portfolios. I'm going to try, though.
Bringing everything up to date.
First off, we're now a family - my wife and I had a baby girl, born on December 20th, 2005, and that in itself has developed into a full-time job. Anthea is now four months old and a lot of fun to be around. She learns something new every day.
Secondly (and based on the firstly), I've decided to leave the day job and concentrate on freelance work full-time. Now that Daragh is back at work and Anthea is going to daycare, it seemed to make sense to have more flexinility in my schedule. There are professional reasons as well — I want more ownership of my work, and I want to work on smaller, more dynamic projects.
2006 is going to be a big year one way or the other, and I'm pretty excited about it. I'm going to try and get back to blogging as well, and writing more about design. I've updated my portfolio, although this site in general is pretty rudimentary, but it felt better to just get something — anything — up, and then deal with it as I go along.
So if you have any leads for me, let me know. :)