Please Welcome, Boston Web Studio
Please join me in saying, to me, you’re crazy.
“You’re crazy.”
Right, thank you, I know.
Five days ago, on May 1st, I officially joined the ranks of millions, (or the very high hundreds), of other self-employed men and women in our great state of Massachusetts. After a little more than two years working for a marvelous local agency called Digital Bungalow, I’ve made the leap to self-employment and started my own teeny-tiny business called Boston Web Studio.
A lot of my life has been spent getting to this point, which I wrote about in depth not too long ago, and after pondering the idea with Sharon for some months and preparing for the transition for other months, I made the leap. I can’t predict how severely this will impact our future, whether good or bad, but I will do every good thing that I can to make Boston Web Studio a successful agency that small to medium sized business owners prefer to work with.
I want to thank my beautiful bride, Sharon, for joining me on this quest; you know the old saying, behind every crazy man, there’s a patient woman supporting his crazy decisions. Without Sharon’s support, encouragement, and firm belief that Boston Web Studio will become all that I want it to become, I’d still have the safe feeling and comfortable support that accompany a regular job… but that’s not what I wanted; I wanted to be my own boss.
I’d also like to thank Josh Porter, Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte for wishing me luck in this endeavor. If the world had more of these chaps, the Internet would be ten times the achievement it already is.
I have to be getting back to work now…
Best of luck to you, Marc! I made the same decision just four months ago, and I haven’t had a single moment of regret.
Tim Merrill
5 May 08 at 1:04 pm
from one freelance web developer to another, let me be the first to say – get back to a cubicle! run! while you still can!
i’m kidding of course. welcome to the ranks. there’s plenty of work to go around for those crazy enough to risk prosperity on the dream of not spending 3 hours a day commuting.
it sounds like you had work lined up before you took the leap. that would have been supremely helpful, in hindsight.
a bit of personal advice – block out work and non-work time. all the freelance-switch blogs and advisors repeat this, because it is important. you can theoretically work all day, 7 days a week, but it’s pretty unfair to your better half.
best of luck!
mike
5 May 08 at 2:02 pm
I’d say good luck, but I know you’re not going to need it. At the very least you’ll be another one of those people we talk about when we mention mark up, style and semantics. And at the most, it’ll be world domination, and when that happens, remember that it was me who lent you books and made you DVDs of LOST.
Paul Kelley
5 May 08 at 2:05 pm
I know I’ve said it before, but good luck. I’m sure you’ll be fine.
Pat
5 May 08 at 2:57 pm
Thank you, all, for your advice, kind words, and support!
Marc Amos
5 May 08 at 4:24 pm
Best of luck going all out self-employed
Dan
5 May 08 at 4:58 pm
I’m sure your business is going to be a great success, Marc. Enjoy being your own boss. (:
Travis
6 May 08 at 1:21 am