Comments on: I Just "Lost" My Job – Woot!

By: Eddie Hill

Eddie Hill — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:03:54 +0000

From the looks of SEO Braintrust… you haven't slept in until noon. Looks like you've been working your tail off

By: Nicole Dean

Nicole Dean — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:49:47 +0000

HUGE Congrats your way, my friend.

I look forward to getting to know the happy-go-lucky Dan Thies who stays up late playing Rock Band (how's the Beatles Edition, by the way?) – and sighs often, thinking of how much he enjoys his free time!

By: Chandan

Chandan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:44:23 +0000

Goo Luck Dan. Wishing you all the best for your new project. Just got your blog and it's a great blog. So many useful contents.

By: He - Imcouple

He - Imcouple — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:53:11 +0000

Just found you blog, apparently i saw a lot of stuff that you did for stompernet and love every minute of it.

By: Kevin Mooney

Kevin Mooney — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:35:25 +0000

Good luck Dan. Your PPC advise has tripled our company's revenues via Adwords. Looking forward to seeing what you are doing next.

By: Katherine Watts

Katherine Watts — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:36:38 +0000

All the best for your new projects… its good that now you have started your own work and you haven't lost your job rather gained something better. Spending time with your family is better than anything else.

By: Siddique

Siddique — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:33:39 +0000

Best Wishes Dan, Learned a LOT from you.

God bless you and your family.

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:54:34 +0000

No Sandy, Apple moved me from the "secret ipod project" to the "secret tablet project" a couple months ago.

My work is already pretty well structured, and to a degree this is rolling back the calendar to what I was doing a couple years ago.

I'm not trying to work part time, just get it balanced better… My uber-simplistic plan is to:

- Remove Fridays from the normal work week. Participating in self-development on Fridays is okay. This worked great for me in the past.
- Schedule all of my fixed commitments at 11am or later, so if we're up until 1am playing Rock Band, nobody gets hurt. That will be especially important when the Beatles Edition gets here.
- involving outsourcers in the business instead of just the task

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:53:01 +0000

It's certainly a great feeling you get when you leave a job to do your own thing but it's amazing how quickly you fill all that free time you thought you had!

Are you talking about the new Apple iPod that is being released on Sept 9th?

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:52:28 +0000

Thanks everyone!

(and Lisa – do let me know how that's going some time)