Happy New Year, Find A New Job!
posted Jan 5, 2008 at 12:00:00 PM by Doug Gibson.
I was laying on my couch on New Year's day, half dozing off with a headache, when I got the vague but ominous call. The next day I was officially laid off from my current job as part of a company downsizing effort. I took some solace in the fact that 9 other people were in the same boat and the Maryland office was being closed entirely in the next few months but it was still quite a shock as I'd never been on this end of the layoffs. I also heard from a number of other people who I know or correspond with online who had been laid off at the beginning of the year and apparently this is a fairly common occurrence.
I already had plans to relaunch dgibson.net as a blog, but now I've pushed that effort ahead so that I can begin blogging and use this site to leverage my chances of landing some freelance work. Dgibson.net had not been updated for close to 7 years, sometime after I got married, so the redevelopment is much overdue anyway.
In the meantime, I'll be doing some house-cleaning and rounding out the template design and populating it with information, and likely blogging about my job hunt and other web development topics as well.
