Welp, here’s hoping this post ages well.

Last week, I made the difficult decision to leave my job at GoDaddy.

This is not intended to say anything negative about the team of people I was working with – it’s genuinely a great group, some of the most intelligent developers I’ve ever had the fortune of working with. The management there is all top-notch, and the pay and benefits are all really good. It’s a fantastic job.

The problem? It’s not what I want. As great as the job is, I found myself yearning to be working with a smaller, scrappier crowd of people again. I missed working with smaller teams, and having a more-direct impact on decisions at the company, and just the general way that a business with 10-40 people tends to run.

All of that is compounded by the fact that I’ve got Siren, which up until this week has been a side-gig that I’ve been building as well as I can, but as its demands continue to grow, I realized that an ultimatum was nigh. Did I want to be an employee, or a business owner?

The true answer for this is easy, although I must admit the path is quite harrowing. I want to run my own business. I’ve always wanted to run my own business. It gives me a sense of purpose that I can’t ever seem to shake. I love the sales process, the client calls, the demos, and the general hustle of the work, and as we have slowed down a lot in our life when we stopped traveling, I find myself getting more, and more antsy.

I was able to largely keep that entrepreneurial voice quiet when we were traveling, mostly because we were just so busy seeing new things, and seeing the world, that I never had the energy to even think about it. In a lot of ways the 4 years of travel alongside working in a traditional job felt kinda like a sabbatical, in hindsight.

In the short-term, I’m going to be actively looking for contract work to help fill in the size-able gap I just blew into my finances. If you happen to know someone looking for a capable WordPress developer with a knack for product design, I might be the perfect person for you. Do reach out, will ya?

I feel ready to make the jump into my business, and I’m excited to move forward with my journey as the founder of Novatorius, and my product, Siren.

Now if only it was making me enough money…

But hey, one problem at a time.