Rory Cullen, Kaizen Software Developer

It was actually a pretty successful week for the WillWorkForFree movement.

By the numbers:

• Twitter followers up to 8 (and not just people I know!)
• Hit the 200 views mark with the blog on Friday
• Topped out at 48 views on Monday, which was a pleasant surprise
• Had 3 comments on the blog this week

Since I am hoping to get the site out to an even broader audience, I also had new business cards made this week specifically for this cause. I hope they’ll arrive prior to my networking meetings this week, as I plan to spread them around fairly heavily.

Work-wise, I have spread myself a little thin, having volunteered to help two job search groups, plus offered to revamp the website of my town’s cable access station. On top of that, I am planning on working about 20-30 hours per week on my new WWFF role for the gaming company. I will need to scale back my volunteer efforts unfortunately, but will do whatever I can for those guys, as it is all about giving back for what they’ve done for a lot of people.  Even worse, I will lose a day this week, spending most of tomorrow fixing one of the showers in my house!

I did start work over the past two days, downloading version control software, and setting up my Eclipse project. I also submitted my first work to the company, which was the proposed directory folder setup for the application I am writing. I am a little nervous, but mostly excited about getting started on something useful!

Thanks again for the support, and keep forwarding this to anyone you know.  You never know who can help!