It's been almost two months since my last update. Clearly. So be prepared for a lengthy entry! I took a break to refocus and fine tune my life! And now I'm ready to update y'all on what's been happening!
Well, first off, a huge thanks to everyone that sent me canned goods and food off of my wishlist. I was deeply touched by the outpouring of support I received after the layoff. You guys kept me going for a solid while and I really can't express words to thank you all enough.
The layoff did teach me a couple lessons though. For example, having savings is a good thing! Unfortunately, that's not always possible, especially when you're severely underpaid at your job. The other big lesson I learned is that loyalty to a company is absolutely silly. Me first, me first, me first. A company is an entity that will always think of itself first, and so should we as employees of said entity. And lastly, I never knew how truly good I had it until I was in such a hard place and all of my friends were so, so supportive and helpful. My "Let's get drunk and laid... off" party actually gave me the lead for my new job!
Onto the changes! My layoff was definitely a blessing in disguise. I am SO glad I was laid off from that company. No offense to them, I do wish them the best and hope they can survive this difficult time. But man! Being at a company that fully appreciates me and recognizes my skills and talents is AMAZING! Not to mention actually being paid well! I work at a company called Outspark, which is a game publisher for free-to-play games, primarily MMOs tho. I'm a Front End Engineer on an actual engineering team and I'm leading the front end development at the company. I have an epic amount of responsibility now, and I work with a really smart bunch of guys (with good taste in music too!). Every morning, I wake up and I'm actually excited to go to work. One of my favorite things about working there is that processes are actually correct. We're working in Agile the way we're supposed to. We're building prototypes and then letting the designers dress them after we define sizes, layouts, functions. Everything is actually iterative. Anyway, life is good on that front.
I shot a set of Jaylin a little while ago. Have you all seen it?! Commented?! It's still sitting in MR sadly, but I'm fairly proud of it. It's been a long, long time since I picked up a camera and made a girl undress for me. Shooting jaylin was a blast. I adore this photograph:
I also shot with Fractal yesterday! We shot two sets at my friend Casey's place which will be debuting in the near future. Really happy with them. Fractal is becoming a really talented photographer.
This is getting long, so I apologize! One more update... I held the second CupcakeCamp with my friends Ariel and Marianne. The first one was back in June and was a decent success. This one, however, was an amazing success! We had over 2000 cupcakes registered and over 500 Cupcake eaters show up! Our schedule ended up working out to 9 dozen cupcakes being brought out every 10 minutes. It was held at GetSatisfaction's office in South Park. And goodness, I was glowing afterward. We even had someone fly in from NYC to attend our event! It took a lot of planning, but it was so worth it. Here are some pics from it:
And here are some random pics!
From the SG book:
Obama night happiness:
Well, first off, a huge thanks to everyone that sent me canned goods and food off of my wishlist. I was deeply touched by the outpouring of support I received after the layoff. You guys kept me going for a solid while and I really can't express words to thank you all enough.
The layoff did teach me a couple lessons though. For example, having savings is a good thing! Unfortunately, that's not always possible, especially when you're severely underpaid at your job. The other big lesson I learned is that loyalty to a company is absolutely silly. Me first, me first, me first. A company is an entity that will always think of itself first, and so should we as employees of said entity. And lastly, I never knew how truly good I had it until I was in such a hard place and all of my friends were so, so supportive and helpful. My "Let's get drunk and laid... off" party actually gave me the lead for my new job!
Onto the changes! My layoff was definitely a blessing in disguise. I am SO glad I was laid off from that company. No offense to them, I do wish them the best and hope they can survive this difficult time. But man! Being at a company that fully appreciates me and recognizes my skills and talents is AMAZING! Not to mention actually being paid well! I work at a company called Outspark, which is a game publisher for free-to-play games, primarily MMOs tho. I'm a Front End Engineer on an actual engineering team and I'm leading the front end development at the company. I have an epic amount of responsibility now, and I work with a really smart bunch of guys (with good taste in music too!). Every morning, I wake up and I'm actually excited to go to work. One of my favorite things about working there is that processes are actually correct. We're working in Agile the way we're supposed to. We're building prototypes and then letting the designers dress them after we define sizes, layouts, functions. Everything is actually iterative. Anyway, life is good on that front.
I shot a set of Jaylin a little while ago. Have you all seen it?! Commented?! It's still sitting in MR sadly, but I'm fairly proud of it. It's been a long, long time since I picked up a camera and made a girl undress for me. Shooting jaylin was a blast. I adore this photograph:
I also shot with Fractal yesterday! We shot two sets at my friend Casey's place which will be debuting in the near future. Really happy with them. Fractal is becoming a really talented photographer.
This is getting long, so I apologize! One more update... I held the second CupcakeCamp with my friends Ariel and Marianne. The first one was back in June and was a decent success. This one, however, was an amazing success! We had over 2000 cupcakes registered and over 500 Cupcake eaters show up! Our schedule ended up working out to 9 dozen cupcakes being brought out every 10 minutes. It was held at GetSatisfaction's office in South Park. And goodness, I was glowing afterward. We even had someone fly in from NYC to attend our event! It took a lot of planning, but it was so worth it. Here are some pics from it:
And here are some random pics!
From the SG book:
Obama night happiness:
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kilcher:
Congrats on the new job!! Things happen for a reason. Same thing happened to me. I got laid off and then found my dream job. 
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