Ahh...our friend Colbert is now a Full-Time Blogger. "Seduced by the Dark Side he is."
I want to take this opportunity to wish him many successes ahead and am hoping that he will remember me when he is talking to Larry King on CNN.
Colbert is a great guy. From the way he devotes his time and energy to writing about Technology (and Jessica Alba), it's only a matter of time when blogging becomes a full-time commitment. I bet he is also making "beaucoup" Bucks.
Colbert is not alone in his pursuit. Many have gone down...I guess "down" is not exactly the right word...up the same glorious path. Leaving the sleazy, cutthroat, back-stabbing, Enron-esque Corporate World behind to start a more Noble Venture. He is among great company like Jeff Jarvis (the BuzzMachine), Scoble (Scobleizer: The Ex-Microsoft Geek Blogger), and Tom (of Tom's Hardware Guide).
That's Colbert's "Cinderella Story." I would like to share with you mine.
Like Colbert, I, too, once worked for the big engines of this Capitalistic Machine (e.g. SIEMENS and then a Telco, among others). But I got burnt-out early. I had no social life, no girlfriends, and not much money to speak of. Then I decided to go back to school and get a Master's Degree (GO JAYHAWKS). Things didn't quite improve either after graduation.
So, I started Consulting on the side and writing my blog (The Technocrat Soapbox, currently under a perpetual state of renovation). Life was hard after the dot-com bust, but my wife and I got by. And I got an outlet for all my artistic/scholastic "outbursts."
[Colbert: You call that artistic/scholastic?]
The Technocrat Soapbox enjoyed some moderate success and gave me a new direction in my life. We weren't filthy rich but were definitely luckier than most in the "Silicon Wasteland."
Just as we were getting comfortable with the thought of not needing to be slaves to the Free-Market Economy, the Technocrat Soapbox caught the attention of SOME VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE (sorry, I can't divulge my client's identity, at least, not yet). We had several meetings, lo and behold, I'm back in the Corporate World. And this time, there seems to be no turning back, at least, not in the short-term (the "Godfather" made me an offer I can't refuse).
