My past two weeks

The past two weeks have been very busy, which is one reason I have not posted a blog in awhile as you might have guessed. Elliana has been teething and needing more attention than usual in the day and at night, which has severly limited my abilities to work on the business and look for a job.

Combined with the fact that late last week I found a job that looked interested at the University of Wisconsin, but the deadline to apply is fast approaching, if I'm not watching Elliana, I'm working on my application for that position/looking for other jobs/working only my business. A few days ago Elliana was up most of the night, and so finally at 3:30am I just got up and got some work done until 7:30 when Debbie went to work.

I should also mention that for the University of Wisconsin position, I'm taking a page out of a listener to Dan Miller who posted a website hiremecompanyx.com to get a marketing position at a particular company. In this case, the job is to launch multimedia infinitive at the university, so a website demonstrating my skills would be appropriate. Also, given the fact that the job is in acidemia, I think I have a disctint disadvantage concerning the fact that my background is not working for another university, so anything I can do to set myself apart will help.

Regardless if I get the position or not, I need to put up a website for my business, so I'm using the same template that my business is going to use, so I'll be gaining valuable experience as I put the website up.

One thing I've been pleased with is most of the time I've spent looking for a job and working on the business I've been able to utilize new skills and abilities, so in a way it's really like I'm taking a course in flash programming, or some other pertinent skill, and happen to have a project related to finding a job or making money creating products.

I've probably spent 30 hours on the site so far, and it's almost finished. When it's complete there will be a talking badger introducing the site, a 90 second promo video to watch, an example of a program I've developed, and some info on my background. I'm basically combining a bunch of technologies both to learn them, and to get across the point I am versatile in my skills. I'll post a link to the site once it's up.