Oh man, what a week it’s been. I can’t believe that it’s only been one week since I’ve gone back to work; such an incredible amount of stuff has changed.

We’re restructuring the technology division at statusfirm, new jobs, new roles, new budgets, new projects, new presentations, new workflow; it’s all a little overwhelming, and it’s all happened in the last week. I suppose it’s a natural progression from being a small web development firm to being something bigger and better, but it makes my head spin. Forget having a baby, I’m losing sleep while I obsessively think about all that’s changed this week.

On top of all of that, TheEnergyNews.com (TEN) is launching on Monday, so I’ve been working crazy hours making sure that everything is taken care of. In terms of all of the projects I’ve worked on with statusfirm this one was the hardest for me. I suppose now that my role in the company is managerial instead of development it’s a change that I’m going to have to get used to. I’m used to having the reigns and being a really active part of the development team. Between Jeff and myself we probably wrote close to 80% of RawVegas, and it was all done exactly to my specs. Conversely, I hardly wrote anything at all for TEN, whether this is a good thing or not remains to be seen.

I can honestly say that I have my reservations about some of the choices made while I was away learning to be a Dad, but I suppose I have to trust that my dev team was doing what they thought was best. My largest concern with this site is the way it was developed… it’s all so disparate, with a dozen different people each contributing something different, and each person doing it in a different way. Looking at the code base for the site make me shudder. Somehow we’ve managed something workable from all of this, but I’ll be hoping for some major improvements in the next month.

I am saying this now for the record: I think that statusfirm’s growing pains are just beginning for me. There’s nothing like being a new manager for a new company that’s doing work that few other companies have tried before. It’s equal parts exciting and terrifying; at least there isn’t much going on at home to complicate things… (so… much… sarcasm… must… end… post…)