April 30th, 2007Dojo Design - the birth
The previous message wasn’t that happy. I wasn’t happy. I had some issues with the new firm to be born and I just thought I’ll never make it in the end. I had to switch the counselor and pay some of the fees once again.
Still, on 18 april I got a call from my new lawyer who wanted to tell me I have a new firm. I was so extatic. At last. She didn’t have to lose too much time with this, she moved fast and effective.
I called my BF, other friends, my family (I was at the stomatological clinic at that hour and they didn’t know about this). I even planned a “party” for us to enjoy the good news.
But all good news bring in some sad ones too. In that night my grandmother fell ill and I had to bring her to the hospital with the ambulance, the next day. She was very sick and for a moment I thought I’d lose her. Here I was .. tired and hungry, stressed to death and still the brand new owner of my dream firm. A small firm, but my own. I couldn’t even enjoy my happiness and I wasn’t happy at that moment at all. I had to postpone any possible celebration dinner and just focus on my family.
I met with a client that very day and with my lawyer to take my papers from her and thank her for such a good job. Then go to the clinic again (they’re also my clients) and then to the radio.
Almost 2 weeks passed and it looks a bit brighter. My grandma is coming on Wednesday back home and I got a new client to work with. I cannot focus on my work that well anymore since I have many things to work on, but I have an understanding client who can let me work at my own snail pace.
Last night I went to sleep at 2-3 in the morning (again). I worked on the new logo for the firm (was quite hard to make the kanji for dojo in Corel), a nice set of business cards and my own price offers to give to some clients or fellow advertising firm owners who cannot design a site and would like to work with me.
Now it’s the only time in these weeks I can kinda live my happy hour and enjoy the joy of being my own boss. I know this means a lot of work (I have worked my self to death these days and I am willing to work till I drop), but at least I am the one to decide what’s done and how to manage this. So far I am the only one to do all the job, but maybe in some time I’ll be able to pay someone to work and focus on design mainly (I am not that pleased to let go of designing the layouts myself or at least controll this) and let another developer code and place texts and so on… But that’s a thing for the future. So far … it’s only me.
