After 4 years of working independently, today I start my new job! I’ll be Principal Developer with Siftware, a small development agency specialising in project rescue, migrations, and generally being excellent at things that need business-conscious development skills applied to them. They’re UK-based but distributed; I will still work mostly remotely. This is also a part-time role so I’ll be using the other half of the week to continue with my books/consultancy/training/outreach/whatever activities – really this “big news” isn’t much of a lifestyle change! I’ve been doing about 50% development and 50% other for the last year or so, and I’ll continue to offer training and specialist consultancy services for anyone with an interesting enough challenge for me.

In fact this is my dream job. Steady, REAL development work, with real people in my timezone. Part time to allow the other aspects of my business to still get some time and attention, and to fit in my other interests/family commitments. Too good to be true? I hope not :)