I thought I’d take a few minutes today to recap the last year of my life. I haven’t written a whole lot of “personal anything” in the last few months, partially out of lack of time, and partially because of lack of words to say…
My main focus lately has been to consistently twitter about life and then slowly add my blog in 2 times a week…followed by adding in 2 times a week of Professional Blog writing as well. I’ve been refocusing my life and work… “trying to figure it all out”
Last Thursday was the one year anniversary of my last day at Vintage21.
A day that is forever marked on my iCal…as a painful day in the life of Jeremy Allen. The day after I was terminated I tried to blog about the event… [link] …at the time I was really confused, hell, somedays I’m still really confused…
There were many factors that went into my termination: some of which were my fault & some were not.
This blog entry is not meant to go into analyzing those weaknesses, nor is it to start name calling. For the record, I am still close friends with Tyler Jones & Matt Stevens to this day. We keep in-touch regularly via e-mail & SMS and occasionally I even make it to service, when I’m not working or out of town.
I love those guys dearly and everything that happened a year ago today has been dealt with, talked about, analyzed to death by both parties, forgiven and forgotten (at least as much as one can forgive and forget).
If you are curious about the “state of my faith” which was talked about [here], I would tell you that there still isn’t really an answer to that question. This year was not about trying to find my way, but instead trying to get past pain and frustration and move on with my life.
So the point (let’s get to it):
I guess I should start by talking about un-employment… cause you see… Since October 2, 2007 I have been a freelancer…
It seems to me that being a freelancer is one of those cool, hip things to do these days, but really it’s a glorified term for un-employment… Now, not to knock on freelancing, I love it and will continue to do it for the rest of my life as my main source of income, but unlike a regular “office job” where you have steady work and steady pay, being a freelancer, the minute you’re done with the job, it’s time to look for something else!!!
Instead of enjoying your “days off at the coffee shop”… you start thinking in terms of… I wish I had a client I could be working for right now… It takes a little while to wrap your mind around this idea. Hell the first few months, gave me the most awkward feeling of bi-polar disorder I have ever felt in my entire life.
Right before all this happened, I had met my good friend Hugh Hollowell, who had just moved to the area and who was also in the same boat I was. He helped me get my blog and website up and running, which helped business a bit, and gave me something to work on and work towards during my dormant times of “un-employment.”
I must say, I got really acquainted with the people at Morning Times, a coffee shop here in Raleigh.
During that time, I made a few Key connections that sorta catapulted me to where I am today. Without those people I would probably be homeless and on the street…
What’s Going On:
Lately I’ve been working for Bass Music Enterprises here in Raleigh while also spending a lot of time in Airports going to see my girlfriend in Ohio. It’s tough living one place, and dating someone somewhere else, but it’s great to be a freelancer and be able to take a week off to go see your girlfriend…
I don’t really know what I would be doing if I wasn’t able to take that time off. [probably would be bald]
In Other News:
My precious laptop died… after 5 years of good times…
Thank God I bought a used iMac the week before…
I haven’t written in a long time so I feel a little rough around the edges, but I needed to give an update and start somewhere…
There should be more frequent updates in the ole RSS Feed soon enough…
