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Hey, can we chat on Zoom real quick?

Hey, can we chat on Zoom real quick?

by Matt · Jul 31, 2023

Hmmm? Why is our enginerring director asking me to chat with him on Zoom right in the middle of my team’s daily standup? I’m talking about a problem right now I need help with. I can’t drop off the call, yet.

Hmmm. William just dropped off the daily team call. Dropped a note in chat saying he had to talk to the engineering director – right away!

This is not good.

Been there. Done that. Don’t want to do it again.

So I drop off the call and join the engineering director’s Zoom.

Ah, the HR person is here too. This is not getting any better.

  • “Business is down”.
  • “Financial challenges”.
  • “Not performance related”.
  • “Company wide restructuring.”
  • “Effective immediately.”

S$!t. It is happening again.

On a positive note, WebDevStudios did send me a very nice letter of recommendation, and my engineering manager did offer to go on record and be a reference for me, and he did urge me to re-apply should the financial position of the company turn around. All of those things were a first for me.

WebDevStudios was a very good company to work for. I learned a lot. I felt like I was able to contribute. My opinions were heard. Management responded when given the opportunity. They truly have the whole remote worker thing down. Noone should ever feel left out there – even if we are hundreds or thousands of miles apart.

What to do?

Cap Web Solutions is still going strong. I didn’t move it to the back burner during my 10 months at WDS. I just time shifted my business working hours. It made for long days and limited weekends, but I do love owning my own agency and being my own boss. Back to it full time now.

One thing is for certain though.

I don’t think I’ll ever hear myself saying to my self, “Hey Matt, you got a minute to jump on a Zoom? I need to talk to you about something this morning.”

✌📤

Filed Under: Starting Over

I’ve Moved

I’ve Moved

by Em Are · Jan 4, 2016

New year.

New beginning.

New address.

In an effort to consolidate some of my online activity, I’ve decided to consolidate several personal blogs into a single online presence. I have been periodically blogging at exploringnewopportunities.wordpress.com, mattry.com, and most recently at mattryan.co.

With this year’s emphasis on minimalist behavior I am going to pull all of the content together under mattryan.co. I am abandoning the WordPress.com blog for now and moving to the self-hosted environment to permit me to have complete control over the manner in which I present my content.

Nothing against WordPress.com blogs mind you, it’s just that a self-hosted blog offers me more opportunity to expand my portfolio of work so prospective web development clients have more reason to chose me when looking for someone to create their website. I plan to interweave my posts from my business site, capwebsolutions.com, with the personal site to offer a fuller picture of who I am.

I was really excited when I was able to get my name as the domain. The .co TLD (top level domain) is considered by Google to be a generic TLD, not just reserved for use by the country of Colombia any longer. (Ref Wikipedia here and here). I think it will help me to centralize things and provide a baseline for my online presence. the whole idea about tribes having a known place to congregate.

I invite you to visit me at my new home on the interwebs, leave a comment, introduce yourself, and let me know where I can find you. Let’s connect.

All the best to you in 2016

Filed Under: Starting Over Tagged With: blogging, entrepreneur

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