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Well I’ve been working with an old associate of mine from MyWebTeam, Pam – really, one of the only people I could tolerate from that place. I’m just doing a few contract jobs with her to make some extra cash. She’s recently decided that Thomas, the owner of MyWebTeam is a dickwad, and that she’s ready to cut ties with him. Finally. Now she wants to open her own consulting firm, with me as the lead designer/art director.

Now before we get into this, let me just say that I just found out her dog died last night. She had two dogs, a small pomeranian named Wolfgang that would play with my shih tzu everytime I brought him over, and a really really big dalmation named Sebastian. Well everytime I brought Koko over, she’d have to put Sebastian outside because she said that he’s bitten smaller dogs before and didn’t trust him to play nice with Koko. Well Sebastian died last night and he spent his last day on Earth locked outside of the house. Well, she left the bedroom door open, which leads to her backyard so he would walk in and out. But still, I feel really horrible. He died of a stroke at 3AM.

So, back on subject here… we talked yesterday about my salary and benefits. Basically I would just be working for her on commission until the company builds a strong clientèle and she can afford to pay me fulltime. But all of her clients would goto me, and as far as I can tell she has been keeping herself pretty busy. So I would definitely still be getting a strong income coming my way until I sign on as a fulltime designer. And I would be working with other designers under me.

She is going to set her business plan to include $1000 a week for me. That’s $25 an hour, which is $50k a year. That doesnt include the %75 commission I would still get after a project closes, which would be like my project bonus (If I’d done the majority of the work).

I am really excited about this. I haven’t been working fulltime since I quit my job at myGenopedia, and have been dying for a steady income. I miss depending on a paycheck every two weeks.

Now, my other new venture (since it is plural in the entry title) is that I’m finally thinking of moving out. I’ve been looking into some really nice live/work lofts in Orange County. If you don’t know what a live/work loft is, it’s when half of the loft is like an office area, where I could meet clients and whatnot, and then the other half is my living area. Usually upstairs would be my living area.

Here are some pictures of the lofts I’m looking at, both in the Santiago Street Lofts in Santa Ana.

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I figured out the perfect solution. Pam is looking for a place to meet clients and whatnot. Since I’m looking for live/work lofts, maybe we can find one together and split the rent. Then she and her business partner could meet clients downstairs in the commercial area as long as they called me first. I’m pretty sure they’d be working primarily from home. This could work!

Well I added a new poll, so be sure to take it!