Yesterday, when talking about the FNG and how to deal with him, he said “Sean and I are gonna have a ‘come to jesus’ with him.” That struck me as hilarious. He says little shit like that all the time, and we generally have some good back-and-forth. It ain’t the greatest job in the world, but bosses like this are hard to come by.
Today, after telling us he was gonna let the FNG go (thank god), he said he kinda had an epiphany about re-organizing how the business is run. So, from now on he’s not going to freak out about making sure I’ve got enough clients and projects…he’s gonna try to keep the business small, with a relatively small list of clients, but also allowing time and resources for developing new tools, templates, and other stuff to just make us a more attractive shop. Experimentation in the downtime, stuff like that. I couldn’t be happier with that. Dead time in between projects is exactly when the most fun stuff gets done, and sometimes the most interesting stuff in terms of expanding the business. Plus, I’ve got a handful of books on coding techniques and other things I’d just really like to learn, and I’ve barely cracked open the books at all.
This should be good.