A brief personal note: I have left my job at Ball State University so I can have more time to pursue my career as a freelance web developer.
For about two years, now, my wife and I have been building up our business, Adelie Design, Stephanie doing the design, me doing the coding. Business is good—good enough that working nights and weekends isn’t enough anymore (and doesn’t leave enough time to see the family!). So I’m “retiring”, which is to say that I’ll be staying home and working 40 fewer hours each week.
I’m glad to be leaving, but it’s been a pretty good four years at Ball State. To my colleagues and friends there: thank you. I hope to remain involved in libraries, and especially the code4lib community. Hopefully I’ll have some free time I can devote to “fun” projects.
If you, reader, know of anyone needing a web developer or designer, please have them contact me.
Good luck, Jonathan! I made a note to myself to check LinkedIn to see if you had a profile, and I’m happy to see we are already connected. Heaven knows the library field could use some good contract web designers and developers. I’ll keep y’all in mind.
Good luck! I hope we all can keep in touch, too. -Dan