Leaving Livewire. <insert ‘Juicy’ pun here>
23 08 2008Wow. Busy week.
Monday after work I met with some fellows at Juice Productions downtown. By Wednesday afternoon I had resigned from Livewire.
My last day will be the day after Labour Day. I will be leaving on my eighth anniversary of starting at Livewire. To put that in perspective, I spent nine years going from Kindergarten to grade 8 in public school. I’ve almost spent as much time with Livewire as I have at Steele St. Public School.
It’s a real shift for me. For the last four or five years I’ve been trying to push my way into more video and DVD work. For the last nine I’ve been trying to find a job in the downtown core. Years of job searching managed to culminate in a single, whirlwind week.
I’ll probably go into more detail in a later post (and better composed), but for now I’ll say that I’m going to help the office move towards more Blu-ray production. I’ll be able to utilize my animation/programming background, and extensive experience with DVD production (al beit for corporate video productions… zzz…)
It looks like a young and growing company, but they already have an extraordinary number of titles under their belt. It’ll feel good to be doing work that’s seen by thousands instead of hundreds or dozens.
I wonder what it will feel like the first time I see my work on the shelf at Blockbuster or Future Shop.
The location is supurb. Adelaide and Peter, between Spadina and John St. A block east is the Fox and Fiddle, my favourite pub - best price/quality combination of any pub downtown. Just north of that is the Paramount Scotiabank Theatre, and just south is a Tim Hortons… a REAL Tim Hortons. No more four-timbit-selections for me anymore.
A five minute walk takes me all the way up Spadina’s rich Chinese district, or to the SkyDome Rogers Centre for a Jays game. Three blocks will put me in front of Simone’s workplace.
I’m seriously waiting for the other shoe to drop. This job is exactly what I’ve been wanting and training myself for, it’s a perfect location and it is timed perfectly as I start my new life with Simone.
Even the cat’s feeling better. Life is good.
Congrats!! I checked out the juice production website. I liked the fruitheads.
I also found a grammatical error: “Our philosophy is simple: great creative should be complemented by great service.”
*sigh* One good thing about DVD and Standard Definition is that you can’t have loads of text.
I’m not going to miss working with excessive copy.
Whooooooo congratulations!! That is so awesome.
Also, we can do lunch some time yes?