Moving Once Again
As many of you know by now I'll be starting a new job at the Taunton Press in Newtown, CT on Monday, November 1. My last day at Daymon Worldwide was October 22nd. I've been hanging around and doing some freelance work during my week off. Allison and I also made a trip up to Kent Falls.
If I had stuck around Daymon until November 18th I would have made the two year mark there. When I started out at Daymon I was hoping that I would be there for the next five years or so, but even the best laid plans sometimes go awry. I'll be heading to Taunton with fond memories of my co-workers in the Daymon IS Department, but with a lot of hope and excitement for the future.
Taunton seems ripe with opportunity for a person with my skill sets and there I'll get to focus on what I love, public facing web sites and e-commerce. The job at Daymon had changed while I was there and I guess I'm not quite as flexible as I thought I was. I'm not terribly interested in being an inside sales person or managing the selection of an order management system, or a digital asset management system, etc. Corporate I.T. isn't for me. I want to work on the web and cultivate customer relationships that directly effect the bottom line. I want to help an organization make money online. The ultimate challenge! I don't want to be seen on the balance sheet as "corporate overhead."
I'll deeply miss my manager at Daymon. This was the second company at which we worked together. He brought me into the place with the same high hopes that I had. I get the feeling that we'll work together again in yet another life. He gave me quite a send-off on my last day. Even I, the office rage-cage, was kind of touched by the gesture.
This will be not only a change of jobs, but also a geographical change for us. Come mid-December, once our lease is up in this dump, we'll be moving north closer to Newtown. We CAN'T WAIT to get the hell out of here. If you keep up with this goofy little web site you'll know we absolutely adore our neighbors...NOT! Norwalk isn't the worst place in the world, but it ain't great either. We are looking forward to moving north...more trees...lower prices. Can't beat that.
I'll keep you posted on how it goes. You Daymon people drop me a note now and then.
If I had stuck around Daymon until November 18th I would have made the two year mark there. When I started out at Daymon I was hoping that I would be there for the next five years or so, but even the best laid plans sometimes go awry. I'll be heading to Taunton with fond memories of my co-workers in the Daymon IS Department, but with a lot of hope and excitement for the future.
Taunton seems ripe with opportunity for a person with my skill sets and there I'll get to focus on what I love, public facing web sites and e-commerce. The job at Daymon had changed while I was there and I guess I'm not quite as flexible as I thought I was. I'm not terribly interested in being an inside sales person or managing the selection of an order management system, or a digital asset management system, etc. Corporate I.T. isn't for me. I want to work on the web and cultivate customer relationships that directly effect the bottom line. I want to help an organization make money online. The ultimate challenge! I don't want to be seen on the balance sheet as "corporate overhead."
I'll deeply miss my manager at Daymon. This was the second company at which we worked together. He brought me into the place with the same high hopes that I had. I get the feeling that we'll work together again in yet another life. He gave me quite a send-off on my last day. Even I, the office rage-cage, was kind of touched by the gesture.
This will be not only a change of jobs, but also a geographical change for us. Come mid-December, once our lease is up in this dump, we'll be moving north closer to Newtown. We CAN'T WAIT to get the hell out of here. If you keep up with this goofy little web site you'll know we absolutely adore our neighbors...NOT! Norwalk isn't the worst place in the world, but it ain't great either. We are looking forward to moving north...more trees...lower prices. Can't beat that.
I'll keep you posted on how it goes. You Daymon people drop me a note now and then.
Hi, I'm Josh Katinger and this is my personal weblog. I'm an Internet Business Analyst living and working in Southwestern, CT. When not at my full time job I also do some 
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Jimmy, you find a place in Danbury yet?
By Anonymous, at 1:42 PM
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