For those who’ve been following my ongoing soap opera, I’ve entered a new chapter. I’ve been engaged for a project that in some ways is a dream project and in others a blamed inconvenience.
The dream part of it is that I’ll be a worker bee/project manager for a substantial project over a six month time frame. Basically, I’ll be doing some design work, some project planning, some project management. Maybe a little grunt labor, too, since it’s my nature to get my hands dirty a little. I’m not unfamiliar with the subject matter of the project but it’s not a complete re-run of anything I’ve been doing over and over.
The best part of all is that the client I’ll be working for is a new client who has substantial potential for future projects of this sort.
The inconvenience part of it is that I’ll need to put substantial time in on it on a regular M-F 9-5 basis—the first time I’ve done that in almost twenty years. Welcome back to the old grind.
Oh, well. The pay is decent—I’ll make more doing this project than I’ve earned in aggregate in the last two years.
I don’t plan to stop blogging but it may cut down on my output a bit. Expect more early morning and evening posts.
Congrats, Dave, and I hope you didn’t have to contribute too much to the mayor’s re-election campaign. /joking
Cool. Although we’d all prefer you just kept blogging your way to destitution.
Only 9-5? Those jobs still exist? (JK) Anyway, congratulations!
I’m being paid by the hour for a minimum of 40 hours a week from now until approximately the end of the year. If I work more, I get paid more.
Congrats! Hope it all works out, though I have to admit I feel a bit of sympathy for Michael’s comment.
It’s pretty impressive when you think about it. And old, old, old dude like Schuler finding good-paying work in a post-apocalyptic hellscape like Chicago.
I’m happy for you Dave. You sound really excited. The very best….
There are some ways in which being old is no handicap. I’ve got a resume that very few 30 year olds can match. It takes time to accumulate work experience like that.
You got that right, Dave!
Congratulations and enjoy the melee 🙂