I’m a free agent

Posted by Jeremy Miller on April 2, 2008

I quit my job today, and it’s been one of the best days I’ve ever had.  It’s felt like a large weight lifting off of my chest.

EDIT 4/5/2008:  Chad & I are still getting some nasty emails, so I’ve removed everything that could possibly give our former boss anything to complain about.

Anyway, no worries on my account, this couldn’t have possibly have happened at a better time personally, and I’ve already had some good looking leads and a very positive interview earlier today.  If you’re interested in engaging a Shade Tree Developer for short term consulting, feel free to drop me a line.  I’ve got to go permanent at some point before August (mortgage lender wants me to be a perm), but I’d really like to try the solo thing for a little while.  I’ve got some downtime, so I might finally get to finish some side project work.

 

I might even manage to start answering emails in a timely manner…. 

About Jeremy Miller

Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap tool for Dependency Injection with .Net, StoryTeller for supercharged acceptance testing in .Net, and one of the principal developers behind FubuMVC. Jeremy's thoughts on all things software can be found at The Shade Tree Developer at http://codebetter.com/jeremymiller.
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  • http://blogpanjkov.qsh.eu Dragan Panjkov

    Jeremy, did you think of writing a book on DI, TDD or unit testing on .NET platform?

  • http://www.mattblodgett.com Matt Blodgett

    “I thought about doing a more retrospective post on what I did wrong, and how I got into this mess in the first place.”

    Please do! I would love to read that.

  • http://computeristsolutions.com josh

    going solo/indy has been great for me. I’ve done it an a hybrid way with a single main client at most times and some occasional smaller stuff. you really won’t have a problem finding work. there’s more and more telecommute stuff too. I’d suggest watching craigslist in additional to the usual places. also, using an rss reader to get postings is a great way to reduce effort in finding stuff. I can suggest places to look or subscribe to rss.

  • http://creedcultcode.blogspot..com Dale Smith

    Welcome back to Austin, Jeremy. Sorry things didn’t work out at your latest employer. If you want to be perm, I’d love to talk to you.

  • http://Bryan.ReynoldsLive.com Bryan Reynolds

    I think you will like being a free agent. There are plenty of benifits.

  • http://www.mattberther.com Matt Berther

    @jeremy: nothing better than getting out from under a soul-crushing, oppressive organization to help you feel a little better. Worry not, Im sure someone of your caliber will be in high-demand.

  • http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/default.aspx Derik Whittaker

    Jeremy,

    I thought you just started this job. I would also like to read what went wrong.

  • http://www.chrisholmesonline.com Chris Holmes

    “I thought you just started this job. I would also like to read what went wrong.”

    Same here. I’m really curious to hear what happened. Give it to us Jeremy; I’m sure your insight will be invaluable to the rest of us.

    And I’m so sorry it didn’t work out man. But you’re a top notch developer so I know you’ll land on your feet just fine.

  • Alex

    I’ll second the comment that going solo is the way to go. Someone with a lot of talent has not problem picking up contracts and you get to work on your own schedule. If your mortgage lender has a problem with it, then you really need to get another lender who does the work they’re paid for.

  • http://bitweiser.wordpress.com Lee

    congrats. It’s always invigorating getting out of a bad situation.

    ~L

  • Lester McGrath

    “If you find out that the previous development staff all left at the same time, run away. Run far away!”
    “You’ve got to meet in person more than once.”

    Boy, do these two hit the bulls eye. I normaly say, dou to experience, that if they want to hire you after the first interview, or even in the first interview, that you should decline. The last employee probably left for one of the following reasons:
    * Huge amount of unfinished work
    * Bad working conditions
    * Lots of overtime
    * Not much pay

  • http://colinjack.blogspot.com Colin Jack

    One question I have for everyon here is what qualifies as high turnover?

  • http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller Jeremy D. Miller

    Guys, comments are closed on this one. Chad & I are getting some nasty emails that contain words like “defamation” and “slander,” and I’m completely ready to turn the page.