Feel the buzz!

As you may or may not know, my wife, Christina is a fourth year doctoral student in clinical psychology. Next year she will have her year long internship. This means that the likelihood of us moving is very great. I have a position with a great company that I would hate to lose. The owners of the company have shared their concerns about me leaving as well.

I have been dreading the idea of moving and having to find a new job, especially because I know I would not be able to walk into a position like the one I have now.

I have been putting together a plan for creating a branch office if the need to move arises. I have been working on figuring out Windows Messenger and Outlook and any other resources that would be needed for sharing between branch offices. This may not be a big deal to most, but until today my mind was set that it was too daunting a task to be feasible. I am buzzing with excitement to realize how simple and inexpensive it would be to open a new branch office.

I am blown away by all these tools that have been under my nose for years but I never took the time to examine their potential. Being that Windows Messenger is an integral part of Windows and the fact that I have never taken advantage of it is sad. We are not a big company, but we are rapidly growing. It wasn't that long ago that the idea of paying for broadband internet connection was a luxury and not a necessity. When the company started out we were a screen name on one of the owner's AOL account and artwork was printed out and driven across town. Now we are server based with large capacity tape back-up using a cable internet connection. The majority of our artwork is sent in .pdf form and we sell a lot of jobs without meeting the customer in person.

I'm sure that these are experiences seem elementary to folks that work for enterprise level companies, but for a couple of guys who had an idea about starting a company in the midst of a recession this is a real milestone. We have hired our 30th fulltime employee and we exceeded our sales for last year with an entire quarter to go.

It has been a process of taking one step, looking around to see if it ok to take another step and then cautiously putting our foot forward. I get a sense that we are getting to tak a huge step forward and I could not be anymore excited about it.