Emergenc(e/y)
Interviewing people is such a trip.
I remember this time last year, I was concerned about graduation, and getting some job to tide me over in the few months while I decided what to do with my life. Believe it or not, this saturday I will have worked at Jimmy John's for one whole year (check the link if you don't believe me). I didn't know if the JJ's thing would just be a short-time thing, something to pay a bill or two, then I'd move out of town in July and never look back. But things happened, I stuck around, and almost a year to the day I'll be in charge of our new Christiansburg store (target date of opening now Tuesday Dec. 12th). And I actually spent a few hours today interviewing new people, and even hiring them. Having the power to be able to say "alright, you're in" rather than "I'll let my manager know" is an interesting distinction. No more "fill out an app and come back for an interview." I'm making that decision. And thankfully, I've been meeting some really good people that sound interested in the whole deal.
Is it weird to become in charge of something so quickly? Sure, it's a much different kind of work than what most of my friends went into, but I just can't imagine what it must be like to still be the low guy on the pole. I've been hearing similar things from other people that graduated around the same time I did - I remember that Jeremy was saying that he was showing someone new around his office once, and it caught him off guard.
It's just interesting to see the list of "people to report to" getting shorter and "people that report to me" getting longer so quickly.
Also one year ago, last december, I released my first solo album Time & Distance. Sure, it didn't fly off the shelves like hotcakes (and I still have a shitload of them if you want one... eight bucks... professionally made... looks awesome.... eh? eh???) but it gave me a very contented feeling to have it done. And I'm starting to ramp up to that again. It's going to be harder to do this second album, what with the level of involvement that work takes (I've had to step away from writing this twice now to take callbacks from new hires).
But in 2007... you can expect a new album from me. It's called Last Night in Town and it's about halfway written. If you're interested to see a few pictures, click this word: wishes. There will be an EP released sometime before the end of winter (hopefully) much like I did before T&D with The Day I Awoke followed by the full album a few months afterwards.
I'm also working on getting a new band together and I'm looking for people in the area who play instruments. I need a drummer, guitarists, bassist, and hopefully keyboards (and maybe a violin?).
So that's what's going on with me.
I remember this time last year, I was concerned about graduation, and getting some job to tide me over in the few months while I decided what to do with my life. Believe it or not, this saturday I will have worked at Jimmy John's for one whole year (check the link if you don't believe me). I didn't know if the JJ's thing would just be a short-time thing, something to pay a bill or two, then I'd move out of town in July and never look back. But things happened, I stuck around, and almost a year to the day I'll be in charge of our new Christiansburg store (target date of opening now Tuesday Dec. 12th). And I actually spent a few hours today interviewing new people, and even hiring them. Having the power to be able to say "alright, you're in" rather than "I'll let my manager know" is an interesting distinction. No more "fill out an app and come back for an interview." I'm making that decision. And thankfully, I've been meeting some really good people that sound interested in the whole deal.
Is it weird to become in charge of something so quickly? Sure, it's a much different kind of work than what most of my friends went into, but I just can't imagine what it must be like to still be the low guy on the pole. I've been hearing similar things from other people that graduated around the same time I did - I remember that Jeremy was saying that he was showing someone new around his office once, and it caught him off guard.
It's just interesting to see the list of "people to report to" getting shorter and "people that report to me" getting longer so quickly.
Also one year ago, last december, I released my first solo album Time & Distance. Sure, it didn't fly off the shelves like hotcakes (and I still have a shitload of them if you want one... eight bucks... professionally made... looks awesome.... eh? eh???) but it gave me a very contented feeling to have it done. And I'm starting to ramp up to that again. It's going to be harder to do this second album, what with the level of involvement that work takes (I've had to step away from writing this twice now to take callbacks from new hires).
But in 2007... you can expect a new album from me. It's called Last Night in Town and it's about halfway written. If you're interested to see a few pictures, click this word: wishes. There will be an EP released sometime before the end of winter (hopefully) much like I did before T&D with The Day I Awoke followed by the full album a few months afterwards.
I'm also working on getting a new band together and I'm looking for people in the area who play instruments. I need a drummer, guitarists, bassist, and hopefully keyboards (and maybe a violin?).
So that's what's going on with me.