Yes, there is still a pulse.

I’m alive. Honest. I mean it. Seriously, I can feel my pulse right now.

Work has seemed to have taken over my life – both my ‘corporate’ job and my own business. Its really cool. I even had time to run lights and sound for the local community theater production. That is through, so now I’ll focus on keeping up-to-date with my online friends and churning out some work for my other clients.

As I said, the corporate job is going well. As a matter of fact I got a 3.5% merit increase which put me up to over $10.50 an hour (a far cry from what I get paid when work is good at Mindstorm, but I’m not complaining at all). The best part of the whole thing was this:

Jim is a great asset to the <blank> Department. He does a fantastic job of working independently as well as on team project. He is able to apply his many skills and talents to the professional materials he designs. He is well organized and does a great job of keeping myself and others involved in the projects informed of project stats and progress. Jim is always upbeat and positive, and contributes many great ideas and suggestings to the department projects. Jim has a great desire to learn every aspect of the <blank> Department and takes time to learn new software and techniques on his own time. He works closely with other Specialists in corss -training exercises, to learn from others and share his knowledge. He is always willing to accept new projects and thrives on challenging projects! Jim remains calm under high pressure and persuant in spite of difficulties. Jim is very creative and applies his stong technical skills and knowledge across many project types. Jim is always kind and courteous and is well like by other team members. Jim takes pride in his work and it shows!

I’ve been in this department for little over 3 months. After all of the years of hearing people do nothing but tear me down or laugh because they think that I can’t do something because of the background I came from has all been washed away. And while I’m not in radio, Big Effin Deal. I’m liked and appreciated for me. And nothing can beat that.