Profiles

Remote work, corporate retreats, plugin development, craft beer, 007 movies, songwriting, podcasting, public speaking, playing Taboo, expanding my own horizons, chickens wearing knitted hats

In the summer of Twenty Eleven
My job was not going so well
My desk was no working man’s heaven
More closely it resembled hell

My sources of strife I shall spare you
Only these tidbits I’ll tell
My boss was a jerk and most of my work
Was done in straight HTML

For many long days I endured this
So that I could bring home enough cash
But it’s hard to do any site justice
When using Dreamweaver and Flash

But then the day came when I found
This free open source CMS
It soon turned my whole world around
The system that’s known as “WordPress”

I dove in and I learned about plugins
MySQL, JS, PHP
I learned all the outs and all the ins
And then knew what I wanted to be

I decided to start my own business
Told my boss that he could take a hike
Set out with just me and WP
To see what self employment was like

The burdens and hardships were many
As I journeyed down that long road
But I started to make a sweet penny
When I discovered I freaking love code!

So farewell to Frontpage and Adobe
I’m pleased with how my future looks
I’m paving the way to a much brighter day
With filters and actions and hooks

So don’t listen to all the naysayers
For I know what I have is the best
It has answered all of my prayers
Hello Dolly, goodbye to the rest