A fascinating career, on the rocks

Here are two true things I struggle to reconcile:

1. I've had a satisfying and reasonably successful career on the internet over the last 28 years. I've been a solo founder, co-founder, full stack engineer, front end engineer, engineering manager, product manager, and UX designer in a wide variety enterprises. I am strong in each of these fields, exceptional in some.
2. I am not the kind of person people want to hire these days

My peers from previous teams have often said something along the lines of "How can you be unemployed? You are so employable!" This article is an attempt to expore that question with brutal honesty about myself and about the industry.

My decades of building teams, products, and businesses

After moving to St. Louis to attend seminary, and then quickly realizing this had been a mistake, I found myself working as a temp. It didn't pay well, but I found myself with an astounding ability to use my time as I wished. The phones got answered, the mail got sorted, and otherwise my time was my own.

I eventually got assigned to McDonnell Douglass to fill in for a secretary on maternity leave. My desk was in an annex elevated abve the floor of the hangar where they delivered completed fighter jets.

• At the start of 1996, I was the second hire, and first development hire, to a newly established new media department at one of the leading PR agencies in the US.
• In the fall of 1996, I started a web design and development agency with two friends from college.

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