I’m bored at the McCarran Airport and have some time before my flight boards, so I thought I’d write a bit about some big changes in my life that I am very excited about. For the past 7 months or so I’ve been juggling both a full time IT job and doing my freelance design jobs at night, which was never that big of the deal because up until the other day I’ve been on house arrest for 6 months. So although it may seem like a lot of work to most people, it was actually time consuming and somewhat pleasurable, since I couldn’t go anywhere besides work from 9-5 M-F anyways.

Now that I’m free, I know I will never be able to get the amount of work done that I was doing during my nights. So I had to make a decision, either leave my day job and try to make a living off just my freelance work or give cut back on the amount of new design jobs and just work my day job and be happy with my salary. I came to Vegas to meet some people who I’ve been working for for the past few months to discuss future work, etc. etc. Everything went great, not only with these individuals but from the time I spent meeting new people in various poker rooms and everywhere else I met a ton of new connections who all happen to need some design work done.

So I decided I’m going back to Buffalo to quit my day job at Spinneybeck and move out to Vegas permanently to pursue my freelance career. I feel bad about leaving Spinneybeck, it’s a great company and I had such a cake job, but I have such greater expectations and goals in my life that I don’t think I would ever achieve at Spinneybeck. Plus Buffalo is cold as hell!

The real decision maker is the best part, The two guys I’ve been working for who currently live in Vegas are letting me rent out their condo in the Panorama Towers, while they move back home and visit periodically, which is the hottest place to live in Vegas. Tons of celebrities and professional poker players live there and it’s going to be an amazing experience living here. My office overlooks the Bellagio and the soon to be City Center, which is being built now, but will soon be the hottest place on The Strip. I am moving in September 8th when I drive back to Vegas with my buddy Joe, whose been living out in Vegas for a few years now. I will definitely post some pictures of the place and the view once I get moved in, but the apartment is truly amazing.

At first I was skeptical about moving away from home, I thought I’d miss all my friends and family, my job and the security of me living a comfortable life style. But in the end I think these changes are for the better, I’ll be able to come home and visit periodically and I think I’ll be alright financially between all the freelance work and my poker income.

On top of all that, I’m going to get an iPhone tomorrow :-)…Since I’ll no longer have my Spinneybeck Blackberry.

Tags: freelance, life changes, vegas

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 2:42 am and is filed under Life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.