It’s January 1, time for new beginnings. Believe it or not I’m applying for a job in academia, so it’s time to put together my curriculum vitae. It’s a fancy name for a resume. Basically, the job I want to do is the one I have been doing, with some extras (like teaching), but not in the context of a commercial software company. UserLand has been getting along fine without me since early summer. And of course I remain the major shareholder in the company, so I’m very interested, and I help out whenever I can. But if it goes as I hope it will, you’ll see a gradual separation. All the stuff that I write on the Web, Scripting News, DaveNet, the specs and discussion groups will stay independent, but the software — Radio, Manila, Frontier, etc — that’s UserLand. As I’ve been talking with people about this, it’s been hard for them to separate me from UserLand, but that’s what I want to do. I’m going to get a new job with a new title, and it’s going to be quite different from being the CEO of a commercial software company. It’s time to set my life in a new direction. My health, quitting smoking, my father’s illness, all have given me the chance to make a big change in lifestyle. Wish me luck! And as I do this corner-turn, in the spirit of weblogs, I will document as much as I possibly can, publicly. [Scripting News]
Dave’s Moving On…
