Back to LA, one last time…for now.
April 21st, 2008 RachelI’ve written this “new opportunities” type post about five times now. Read them aloud, deleted drafts…and inevitably started all over from scratch.
Here we go again.
As some of you already know, this will be my final trek to LA for MusicIP. I can’t even begin to cover what I’ve gained/learned/picked up over the last three years. I’d get all misty eyed and you’d probably move on to another, more succinct, publication that’s not on a scenic train ride through memoryville.
I’ve been lucky enough to work with and get to know some incredibly talented, passionate people. What attracts me to startup culture the most is that overachievers and workaholics surround you. There’s something slightly manic but so electrifying to walk into such a fast moving atmosphere everyday. Given the taste, I think it would be hard to ever go back to a 9-5 position somewhere. A <blech> job.
These are folks I admire and will absolutely miss - writing up the resignation letter was the easy part…actually telling this second family of mine that I’m moving on proved far more difficult.
Even more heart twisting/warming is how supportive and quite simply…*ridiculously awesome* my MIP family has been over the last couple of weeks. I couldn’t ask for anything more.
So…
Where am I headed, you ask?
b5media - a rapidly growing blog network that I’ve been familiar with for quite some time now. Just a thirty minute walk from my apartment and home to a fantastic crew I’m thrilled and honoured to start working with (notice the ‘u’ - I really am home…). Fortunately for me, I don’t have an international move looming like other startup junkies I know…but I do have some difficult emotions to sort through. Fortunately, I’m running toward something - and that something is an incredibly big opportunity I’m dying to dig into.
Oh - and of course, I’ll be back there to visit. California couldn’t 100% get rid of me that easily.
