Fired might be a harsh word, but as of today I no longer work at the glorious Smiley Media. Working there was really fun, and I learned some interesting things, but at the end of the day I don’t think I’m really meant to work in an office.

The only part I’ll really miss are the people at Smiley Media. Steve is really good at hiring interesting people, so it was fun to be in that type of atmosphere every day. Unfortunately I never really “got into” the work, and thus I wasn’t nearly as effective as I should have been. I felt somewhat guilty about that the whole time, occasionally pushing myself to be more useful, but found it hard to maintain. Since I helped hire two really good employees for the company, I may still help them find more, so if you’re awesome and want to work there, let me know.

Now here’s the thing: Smiley was such an awesome place to work, and I still couldn’t hack it. This means that there is no way I will ever get a job again. The only possible exception is a really cool experiment that I’ll be conducting soon, but you’ll agree that it hardly counts.

So what’s next? Luckily I have two things I’ve been working on in my free time. The first is an ebook about pickup, which has come out very well. I’m building the web site and such for it now, and it will be released soon. The second is a really cool web site that I’ve talked about in the forums. I have a bunch of other good ideas too, and now I have the time to do them. Before I would literally do nothing but real work, eat, karaoke, and then work on my side projects.

Overall I’m very happy about this change. It was hard for me to be accountable to anyone else, and also difficult to not have the freedom to travel whenever I wanted. I actually did have a lot of freedom there, but I’m too used to doing my own thing. If you’re reading this, you should be excited. You can expect more posts, more crazy adventures, and more cool new projects!

The only challenge now is to start something fast that will give me enough income to live until my bigger ideas come to fruition.