Effective today, I quit my job at Intuit after six years. While I immensely enjoyed the company of my immediate coworkers at the Orem office, ultimately I had enough of the corporate life.
I've had difficulty dealing with the corporate life more this past year than ever before. You can blame the Yoga to some degree. Arbitrary deadlines are pulled out of thin air so that the citizens of the corporate world can live in a constant state of stress. And by arbitrary, I mean arbitrary -- no valid reasons are used to determine these dates (vs. another date) on a project, but the dates always were sooner rather than later.
Ultimately I think this will be our undoing in the U.S. Our society is so focused on work, that we Living to Work, rather than Working to Live. The result is burnout. And what happens when everyone burns out at the same time? I don't know.
So now I'm officially striking out on my own. unmarked software has been around for quite some time (since April 1998) and has done OK for itself considering it was a part time venture.
Well, for better or worse, I've decided to focus all my energies on it now to see if it can help me move along my path.
The main software product I have is textSOAP, a productivity utility that ungarbles those email messages you get (polluted with "e;>"e; characters, broken in the middle of lines). In fact, it can ungarble just about any text you run across. It's available for both Mac OS X and Windows XP.
So I ask you to check out the software, encourage friends/coworkers to check out the software. If you like the software, please buy a license. If you don't like it, let me know why by writing.
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