One door closes, lots of doors open.
Back in November, I left my position at MySpace to move to San Francisco and work for a teeny weeny startup. I definitely missed the startup world, and really enjoyed working in a 6 person company. After Yahoo!, AOL, and MySpace, it was like getting back to my roots.
But, things change, I am no longer working on Operation Turtle, and find myself in one of those funny “wow, I could almost do anything” situations. I wish the best for the folks left at OT and hope that they do get to show the world how incredible the product truly is. I’m moving on, though.
What do I do next. I’ve been emailing various folks, applied for a few positions online, but have saved most of the applying for jobs until I’m back from BlogHer in chicago next week (there’s nothing worse than applying for a job and then being unavailable). I’m a product person, so obviously, that’s what I’m looking at, but this is one of those moments where, theoretically, anything can happen.
In what is a sick twist of, I guess it’d be irony, I had been thinking for months now how much I missed writing, and how cool it would be to take a year and do nothing but write. Write the ‘great american novel,’ so to speak. Now, while it’s safe to say that whatever I write will most likely not be publishable in any form, it is still good for me and my own sanity to get something down on paper. I feel better when I write. And, well, let’s face it, it takes a little while to find a new job. While I hope I find something great and wonderful soon, I’m still gonna have some free time on my hands.
So I’m, slightly unexpectedly, back on the job market. Who knows what I’m going to do. But as always with me, it’s sure to be an adventure.
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By Josh Chandler, July 23, 2009 @ 2:18 pm
Stephanie, it sounds as though you are making some very exciting career decisions right now, plus you had some AMAZING experience working at Myspace, so naturally any job you apply for is bound to take you on.
Best of luck with the “Great American Novel”
Josh
By StephanieBamBam, July 23, 2009 @ 2:20 pm
Thanks Josh!
By Mark (Master) Attew, July 23, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Who’s going to catch me looking at inappropriate websites whilst using Operation Turtle?!
By Leona, July 23, 2009 @ 7:57 pm
Best of luck in your next steps, the world is your oyster.
When you get back from Chicago give me a shout and I will come to SF for lunch. I am a lady of leisure right now so it would be fun to catch up.
Leona
By Jerry Paffendorf, July 24, 2009 @ 12:16 am
> “[I] find myself in one of those funny “wow, I could almost do anything” situations.”
Dare I say it? Whatever you do, follow your bliss!
I’m in Detroit a bunch now. If you feel like cruising the 4 hours or whatever from Chicago to the D I could entertain you there, otherwise we should get some drinks in SF when we’re all around.
Fun question: if you had to pick a name for your great American novel right now this very second, what would it be? You show me yours, I’ll show you mine…
By StephanieBamBam, July 24, 2009 @ 9:11 am
@leona absolutely!! Will ping you next week so we can figure something out.
@jerry – you too! I’m a little busy while I’m in chicago, but next time you’re in SF we should totally meet up. As for the name? “Alive” I think. Whaddya think?
By Jerry Paffendorf, July 24, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
> “As for the name? “Alive” I think. Whaddya think?
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nice. ok allow me to brainstorm a second. with a title like that i’m seeing potential for you to do the first book in the vain of the http://www.abevigoda.com / http://isitchristmas.com sites. basically it would be a whole book, or significant parts of a book, giving one word statuses of people and things that are alive (maybe you change the title to Is Alive). the e-book would actually update if their statuses (god forbid) changed. it would be a sad but poignant work (2 works? Is Dead?). and boy would it be easy for you to write.
anyway, far from what you’re thinking i’m sure, just priming your creative pump in the way i know how. i’ll stop clogging your airwaves with alive status noodling and take the brainstorming offline. whatever you write, if you need a copy reader, you got one here.
for my part, if i had to write the great american novel right this second it would be called “Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Church?” inspired by this photograph: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wellohorld/3578489681
By StephanieBamBam, July 24, 2009 @ 9:41 pm
Jerry, I adore you.
I was thinking boring fiction novel, you turned it into a work of art.
I would LOVE to see the book you’d write based on that pic!!