I can finally (with sincere apologies to Zeldman and crew) talk about new developments in my personal and professional life, and I’m stoked to do so!
For the last two years, I’ve been working for GoDaddy.com as first a production designer, then as a front end developer for our ecommerce application. But for the last 10 years, my passion has been blogging, community, and content management. Over the last few months, I’ve felt that I was ready for a new direction professionally - one that would put me back in the middle of the kind of work I love - blogging and helping build blogging and community tools for cool clients. I’ve also felt that I was ready for a new direction personally - our kids are now being home schooled by my amazingly talented wife, and I want to have more time to focus on the family and helping Jodi with the up-training of little minds.
So, I’m excited to announce that I’m going to be joining Six Apart’s team of professional services developers and designers, working with some sites you may have heard of, and helping to improve blogging in general and one kick-ass blogging engine in particular.
The bonus is, I’m going to be working from home - “Six Apart Phoenix” will be my home office - which means I get back 2 hours a day that I won’t be commuting. It also means that I’ll be available more to my family, which is a great thing.
I’ve loved working with the team here at GoDaddy. It’s a fast-moving company with some awesome people, many of whom I got to work with on a daily basis, and I’ll miss them as I start on a new track.
(As usual, the standard disclaimers apply: “The views expressed on this website/weblog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of Go Daddy.com Software, Inc.” and “The views expressed on this website/weblog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of Six Apart, Ltd.”)
Best of luck on your new venture. As someone that's in favour of home schooling, remote working and blogging sounds like a big FTW :)
Damn I lost my REM/ FOO fix on the shared tunes.. Come back!!!;)
Congrats! So I guess this means the Drivetime Debrief won't be coming back any time soon?
BTW, your OpenID implementation doesn't seem to recognize a valid OpenID at https://certifi.ca/cori. Not the only implementation that doesn't, but I thought you'd want to know....
Glad to have you join us!
Congratulations on your new direction, I work at home with my wife and 2 kids -- it's like anything else: you have to learn how to do it.
-- Brian
Congrats Steve! Sounds like a great direction. FYI, we've been homeschooling our son for the past 3 years. If you need help, let me know!
--Eric
Thanks guys! I'm really excited about this and I think it's going to be a great ride.
And thanks, Eric - I may ping you for some ideas teaching Science to my 7yo!
Congrats, Steve. Working at home has been an awesome experience for me. I really can't imagine going back to an office at this point. Hope it works out the same for you!
greg.
Hey Steve, this is Matt Jacobs, one of your future coworkers in 6a Services. Congrats on the move and we can't wait to have you on the team!
Thanks Matt! I'm stoked, and hoping to get up there to meet folks later this month. Hope I'll run into you!