2010 Goals

With 2010 already here I’m going to go ahead and post up some of my goals for this year. Some call it “New Years Resolutions” but I think that’s a bunch of fancy talk.

First and foremost: Grow my business and make if official. Over the last couple of months I have been refreshing my Inkwell Design Studios website. I will soon be taking the legal steps to make it a business, and employ myself to grow it in to something successful that pays my bills and more. Hopefully I can profit enough money off of it this year to allow myself to go back to school and gain new knowledge on the newest technologies.

Knoxville, TN is now home to me. I moved here on Halloween of 2009, and hope to call this place home for a lasting while. Things are good between me and my girlfriend Tiffany, and talking about settling down and all that jazz. Engagement rings are expensive. See goal one, “make enough profit to go back to school”, I better add to that and make enough to pay for that ring setting too. Love you babe. I have been scouting out local web development groups and hope to meet some people that have some of the same interests as me and see if we can partner up and benefit off of each other’s services.

I haven’t had much luck on finding a job at the moment. The economy isn’t that great here, but I have good intentions, this week I am going to meet with a few people on discussions of work. I am trying to start up the Knoxville territory with a company called auto uplink, doing the automotive inventory management that I was doing a couple years back. There product is much better than that of the companies I used to work for, the technology is much better.

While browsing around on the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce’s site I did learn a few cool things about the city.

• One of the 50 Hottest Cities for Business Relocation and Expansion, Expansion Management, 2005, 2006, 2007
• Among the top 10 Best Places for Business and Careers, Forbes, 2006, 2007, 2008
• First among Best Places for Recent College Graduates, Economic Research Institute, 2006
• Third nationally in Salary Value Index, Salary.com, 2006
• Ninth among Hottest Mid-size Cities for Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneur, 2006
• One of only 12 Solar Cities chosen for a grant by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2008 to integrate solar technology into public buildings
• UT’s Supply Chain & Logistics graduate program ranked #9 by U.S. News & World Reports for 2010.