August 10th, 2010
Returning home from travelling to no money, no job and living back at my parents, made me feel rather down in the dumps. The thought of returning to the same old job, doing the same old day-to-day tasks made me feel even worse! Perhaps I shouldn’t have felt like this considering I had seen how people live in the slums of Mumbai and the devastation caused to the landmine victims in Cambodia – but I just couldn’t help it.
So I thought to myself, rather than feeling low and then feeling guilty about feeling low, I needed to do something about it. I decided the only way out was to try something new and take a few risks. So I got myself a new job doing something completely different.
I have always worked for big corporate companies and felt fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things. So I now work for a small business and know that my work really does make a difference. I also moved away from never speaking to a soul at work (analysts live quiet work lives) to having lengthy conversations and building relationships with our clients (in a professional way!). The main risk of all though was committing to spending an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening on the M1 – I hate driving.
The rewards for making these changes and taking these risks have been amazing, I exercise my brain, get great job satisfaction and actually enjoy my working life. I highly recommend it.
Aimee is Edge of the Web's client manager. Since graduating 5 years ago, Aimee's background is in customer relations and data analysis.
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April 26th, 2010
It’s been a period of great change, both personally and professionally.
On a personal note, my wife gave birth to the newest member of our household recently. Jack is our second child (we also have a daughter called Mia). It’s been an exhausting and rewarding couple of weeks, much easier to enjoy the second time around when everything is a bit less scary.
On a professional note, we are thrilled to announce that a new member has joined our team! Sam Orchard is a very talented web designer and we are very fortunate to have secured his services for the next 30 years (Sorry Sam, didn’t we say?…;)
This of course means we will soon have more capacity to offer our customers, who have been very patiently waiting for free slots. (I know that sounds like marketing rubbish, but it’s true!). As mentioned Sam is very talented, but design talent only represents 50% of a truly great web designer. The other 50% is the ability to understand how to make a website a ruthlessly commercial sales generation tool. We estimate in 2-3 weeks we will start booking Sam out in earnest, but one or two of you may get to work or speak with him before this date.
Anyway, enough waffling, we’ll get to work mechanically reclaiming all the good bits of Sam and reforming them into a tasty turkey twizzler of a web designer. (Ignore the negative connotation of turkey twizzlers, I like the alliteration)
Tom is Edge of the Web's marketing expert, and has been working on website strategy and marketing for around 10 years.
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