These days, I don\u2019t have a lot of time to write and this is by design. I have undertaken this new flow of getting work done which is still methodical but shorter form. My work this year has shifted from a long form visionary manifesto writer to someone forced to fit idea into PowerPoint. This isn\u2019t a bad thing, I was always the student receive points off for being too long winded in essays\u2026always going over the word count. Blogging played to this but it did not translate well to the work I\u2019m doing today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was my end of year review today at a job I\u2019ve held for eight and a half years. It\u2019s the longest job I\u2019ve ever had by 4 years. I\u2019m 32 now. I\u2019ve been here since I was 24. I\u2019m no longer the youngest person at the company but I\u2019m still one of the youngest people here. My colleagues and I have grown older together and I\u2019m catching up to their ages when I first joined. I\u2019m really grateful to have been able to work at this company for as long as I have. They continue to invest in me. I\u2019m not too old to place into a silo and carry out my stale ideas for the next few decades. I\u2019m still \u2018up and coming\u2019 which is a great feeling. It won\u2019t last forever, that\u2019s aging for you. I already don\u2019t understand popular culture. I hope I have another two decades before not understanding work and technology cultures that pay my bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wanted to summarize this year a bit. This is different from my birthday posts which are always philosophically reflective in nature, sort of a sit rep for where I am as a human, where I compare to my dad and where I fall short against where I believe I should be. That post always matters. I haven\u2019t really summarized my life in a while. Unfortunately, I\u2019m ignoring a task I need to do by the end year which is to summarize the accomplishments for my boss to take to company leadership as a year in review professionally for me and my team that relies on me to keep them employed, lead them and grow them at this company. I have until New Years Day to complete it. I really need to just sort of be long-form for the first time in a few months. I guess I need this more than you need to read it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s not fair to talk about 2018 without dipping our toes back to 2017. I started nothing new in 2018 that wasn\u2019t a seedling planted in 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
October 2017, I sat down with Christine and said, \u201cif there\u2019s any property management work in my area, I\u2019d like to help you out.\u201d I was clear with her that there\u2019s no thought in my mind of leaving my day job. The work for her would never come before my love of technology and map-making but I wanted to make extra money and pick up a new skill, one that I could use to one day utilize in real estate investment. This is a 20 year plan for me. Christine was my landlord in my 3rd rental in New Hampshire. She was my buyers\u2019 agent when I bought a home and now she was my mentor in property management and I one of her salespeople. She\u2019s my broker as well. We have 2 properties together but I\u2019m getting ahead of myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also in October of 2017, my boss along with his boss sat me down and told me about what I should be doing in 2018. They identified me as someone who could do this. I was excited but I thought they were crazy. Their idea was to build out a research & development team within our group starting with 1-2 people and grow this over time. They said I should get some programming skills and management skills and grow very fast into the role because I had to grow. There was no grace period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I knew this day would come eventually. I was hired to this company in 2010 to do this skunkworks initiative. Then, it never happened. Politics,r e-organizations and I went through 4 bosses all trying to fit me into a mold. I didn\u2019t lose my entrepreneurial passion. I just became complacent in eating the meals served to me instead of rejecting them and making my own food from scratch. In addition to feeling stoked about this, I felt that my time had run out as a \u2018fake project manager\u2019 meaning I wasn\u2019t PMP certified, I didn\u2019t like sitting in meetings with people talking about far off plans that would never happen and I extreme planning was a drag. Let\u2019s just go build something instead of talking about it all day. This is not a failure of my employer as an organization, this is a big company problem and I really wanted to be the change instead of just writing about it or talking about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In September of 2017, I bought my liquid cooled R1200GS. My first brand new motorcycle with aspirations of making modifications to it and documenting that. In early 2017, I stopped modifying my Golf R and my 2009 GS was done being modified. I had continued to gain new YouTube subscribers and blog readers from those 2 projects. With a new bike, I had an outlet to modify the new bike, create maintenance videos and share my passion with people. Like property management and running an R&D lab at a 6,000 person company, putting this blog and videos out on the Internet exposes you. For an introvert who doesn\u2019t gravitate toward criticism or collaboration, I sure do find a way to put myself out there for the criticism and collaboration with others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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2018 started and I got to work. I used to think things happen rapidly. They do but in small bursts (or sprints to use my new vocabulary). You can\u2019t just make a salad, there is the growing of vegetables, making cheese, sauces, croutons and harvesting,drying and cracking peppercorns. It\u2019s a process and you will have a tough time going at this alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Property management is the 2018 item that really was the most foreign but I gained an interest in it after going to a new home buyer class in 2016 before I bought my home. It was interesting, all of the things realtors do so while property management is in my opinion a stepping stone, it sets me up with the relationships and knowledge to sell homes (and buy them as an investment) down the road. I began managing a condo association with almost 80 units. Even being a fake project manager for 7 years, I wasn\u2019t bad at it. You have your stakeholders, requirements, maintenance, investment opportunities, capital and operating costs and you need to manage personalities, vendors, clients, suppliers and keep things running smoothly. If you\u2019re doing your job, no one should know you\u2019re doing anything at all except when you advertise it to the people who are paying your salary. The clients (condo owners) just need to know you\u2019re doing your job because they never hear any complaints. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In August, we added a 2nd property, a 6 unit multi-family but it was a tax-sale and the new remotely based owner wanted to completely renovate the building. Thanks to my experience remodeling my entire house inside and out, I was able to play a huge role here. Now, the unit is done and I\u2019m showing it to potential renters for next year. Managing a large condo association was my first gig was daunting. I feel I was able to adequately handle this. There were ups and downs and Christine did a great job of taking over when I was out of my element. I\u2019ve worked with over 7,000 emails this year related to property management and I\u2019m averaging 5 calls a day up from on average 1 a week before. It\u2019s a huge amount of new communications with all kinds of personalities, issues, questions, thoughts and complaints. I really feel as if I managed things decently. I know I can do better but being hyper-connected and always on allows me to manage things pretty well. I only had about 12 weeks out of 52 where an emergency would come in that ha to be handled ASAP (frozen pipes as an example). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This job is such a minor source of income for me, there are times when I realize 40% of my free time this week was spent on a few hundred dollars. I know this is an investment in my future and very good for me. I\u2019m starting at the very bottom and I am fully committed to continuing the work for a very long time. As I told Christine, I don\u2019t need the money. I need the experience in order to develop an expertise so I can grow my wealth as I enter my 40s. I\u2019m 32. I have plenty of time to figure this out and I\u2019m so happy she\u2019s giving me this opportunity. Technology and my day job come first. An effective $3.50 an hour for property management after taxes hurts but I\u2019m happy because it\u2019s all uphill from here. No one just gives you something. You have to earn it and work for it. I\u2019m really stoked about the whole prospect of passive income in my 50s. That\u2019s what I\u2019m working toward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had to take a break and read my blog post about coming to work in New Hampshire. I remember that post being passed around the office before my arrival\u2026famous before I even arrived \u201chere\u2019s this guy stoked to come work here!\u201d Reading that post, I haven\u2019t lost that enthusiasm but I\u2019ve learned that this is just me toward everything. I\u2019m alive, I\u2019m healthy, I\u2019m happy and I have a purpose! I can pay my bills on time, I have some hobbies (finally) and while I don\u2019t have very many friends, none that I think I\u2019ll still have in 5 years, relationships have never driven me. Accomplishing something is what drives me and I\u2019ve continued to accomplish things at this job. I was behind on learning AWS and behind on adoption of machine learning and AI and I was late on utilizing the massive amount of data we have to work with and the missing link was that I never petitioned to get people in our organization capable of working with this without any of that big-company political baggage. I\u2019m now running a program where we have 6 fresh faces come to our office for 3 months every quarter for the last 6 quarters and they build things. Unfortunately, there\u2019s no way to share what we\u2019re working on. It\u2019s all awesome, trust me. 1 of our projects is now a production element, we have 3 more that I think are great candidates. We\u2019re an innovation arm and we\u2019re doing so many cool things. The benefit of a revolving door of junior engineering talent on a finite timeline in between their graduate programs is I get to build my soft management and technical leadership skills without a lot of fall out. Every quarter, i get to try something else. I\u2019ve grown so much in 2018 in this role and we have real products that are so freaking cool. We\u2019re taking this data and ideas and processes and we\u2019re flipping everything on its head and no one has stopped us yet. Managing all of the interest toward what we\u2019re building has been the hardest. I have no idea what I\u2019m going to be doing a year from now but I hope it\u2019s a variation of what I\u2019m doing now. This cannot be underestimated though. This isn\u2019t a startup but that\u2019s how it feels. It feels as if I\u2019m running a startup and I feel very confident that we are doing things that are going to be major players in how we do business in the future. My only real fear..well maybe two that I\u2019m going to drown trying to do this because I plateau OR these are the golden years and in 5 years, I\u2019m back in a silo carrying out tasks off an Excel document. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have 3 of my 6 current interns who want full time jobs at our company. That\u2019s part of what we\u2019re doing here. Finding talent that we\u2019d pass over for software engineering jobs because they lack the experience and have them prove themselves. I told all 3 of them since I don\u2019t have full time roles in my team and they don\u2019t meet qualifications for other hiring managers that these engineers need to be the change they want to be. If they want to be doing something at this company (QA, Documentation, White-boarding, planning, PM work, security hardening) whatever it is they want to do, they need to just start doing it. That\u2019s how I made this team come back to reality. In 2015, I just hired a part time high school student. I started innovating and we organically grew this seed into a small seedling and now it\u2019s a real program. If something isn\u2019t being done and you want to do that job, make that job. invent it out of thin air and if you\u2019re good, someone in this organization is going to notice it and give you the job you were already doing but finally with the pay that matches the role and now you\u2019re working your dream job. While you\u2019re here part time as an intern, be that change, be that job, be that role and you might be surprised where you are in a few years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
YouTube is going to pay me $5,000 in 2018 (pre-tax). Combined with $1500 in affiliate revenue. This is now a legitimate \u2018hobby\u2019. I\u2019m still not investing the time it would take to double the revenue. I\u2019m making amateur videos of installing thing on my motorcycle, change oil, detail my car, do maintenance and go on trips. I\u2019m documenting and throwing them together and I\u2019ve funneled all of the earnings into hardware that supports this hobby. A $3,800 MacBook Pro, DJI Magic Air for $1000 and a GoPro Hero 7 along with Final Cut Pro X, Lightroom and memory cards. These are things I would have bought anyway :) but it\u2019s good to have a 1 hour a day hobby that makes money. I spent 4 hours a week talking to companies, planning and thinking about the hobby (or just riding my motorcycle \/ driving my car) and then I buy products, work on them and make money on the videos or affiliate revenue. I want to devote more than a paragraph to this but it\u2019s hard to. It\u2019s a hobby I make money on and if the revenue rate remains unchanged, I\u2019ll be happy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2026I should add though (yeah, 2nd paragraph!) that in 2018, I went from having my Golf R and a R1200GS to having a Golf R, Ford Escape, a new R1200GS (2018 instead of 2017), a Beta 500 RR-S dirt bike and now a BMW K75RT from 1995 as a new project bike. I will unfortunately probably add another bike in 2019\u2026something more sporty to match my practical bikes. All of these motorized vehicles open up opportunities to make videos. The more motors, the more videos. There\u2019s only so much you can do to a car or bike within reason and without ruining the resale value. It\u2019s going to be a great 2019. I\u2019m actually on a bus now to fly down to Virginia to ride the K75 home and when it gets home, I\u2019m tearing it apart down to the frame to completely refurbish all of the hoses, gaskets, bolts in need of new thread-locker and wiring harness. I\u2019m going to keep it completely stock with OEM parts so the next owner can have a pristine bike and of course, make a bit of YouTube money along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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That\u2019s really it on the professional front. This year, well this October, it\u2019s Heather and I\u2019s 2nd year of owning the house. Well, I own it but we 50\/50 split everything associated with it (writing this down for the courts if I ever die). 2 years in the house means we have paid off all of the appliances we acquired in 2016, the 24 month same as cash furniture, washer, dryer, oven and such. We\u2019re finally saving money at a faster pace, enough to finally tackle home projects left undone by our contractor because he went way over budget (29K over budget on a 63K usd project and telling us about this the last week of construction). We have yet to finish the basement, build a garage, re-siding the house, build in more parking, pave our driveway, build a front deck facing the lake or insulate the 2nd bedroom (yeah, it\u2019s cold in there). We\u2019ll start some of these projects next year. I\u2019m guessing we\u2019ll need another $30,000 USD total to get all of these projects done. I\u2019ll tell the contractor story at some point in the next 2 years. I need more time to pass for that wound to heal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heather and I tomorrow the 22nd will be celebrating our 5th year of our first \u2018date\u2019 if that\u2019s what you want to call it. We just met up for a drink. I really can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been 5 years since we\u2019ve met. We\u2019ve been living together for 3.5 years I think..maybe just 3. She\u2019s almost the longest girlfriend I\u2019ve had. One more year, Heather. We\u2019re both still young in our dreams, careers and life. She\u2019s been a great partner. We split everything 50\/50. We support each other. While I have a pretty good idea what I\u2019ll be doing in 20 years, I don\u2019t really know where she\u2019ll be. I think she\u2019ll have that figured out in a couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Porter will be 3 years old very soon. he came to us March of 2016 at 12 weeks old. He\u2019s still a scared little mutt hound dog. He has really come into his personality and despite his beagle bark, he\u2019s a good dog. I\u2019m very slow with forming close relationships. It took about 2.5 years to feel like he\u2019s my dog. I still think he\u2019s heather\u2019s by default. I am really slow at that whole relationship thing with people and animals. So if you\u2019ve known me every day for 2.5 years, I\u2019m finally feeling like we have a good chance of being friends. Porter should live a lot longer I hope he\u2019s around when I\u2019m 40. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heather and I didn\u2019t take any vacations this year. I chose to spend 3 weeks of my earned time off in North Carolina (BMW Quebec Group Trip), Labrador Canada (Trans-lab Motorcycle Ride) and various motorcycle events and rallies. I owe her a trip to Belgium in 2019. We\u2019re trying to narrow down a date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope she gets more comfortable with riding on my bike. I want to go back to Newfoundland. She wants to take a car. I don\u2019t. Maybe she\u2019ll never be into touring on a bike? I hope that changes one day. I know it\u2019s not for everyone. I just love it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking of that, I auditioned for and was voted in as a board member of the BMW Motorcycle Owners of Vermont. I\u2019ve also put my name in the hat to represent the Northeast at the national level for the BMW Motorcycle Owners of America. Both require I attend specific meetings regionally and nationally. I\u2019ve met so many great people through BMW motorcycle clubs and it\u2019s one of my social outlets. I love the bikes and so long as I can afford it, I think getting more involved is a good thing. I\u2019m probably too young to be involved at the national level of BMWMOA. One can hope!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Am I running out of things to say? Well, I did gain some weight this year. I was down to 240 last year. Now at the end of 2018, I\u2019m back up to 260. I need to get to 220 and stay there. Riding helps but I didn\u2019t do a lot of endurance riding this year. Lots of touring. After my 4,000 mile TransLabrador trip, I was tired of riding for a few weeks. Then I got back on the bike and crashed it in Vermont. Did I write about that on this blog? I can\u2019t remember. Just did a quick search. I guess I didn\u2019t. Well, I\u2019ll make a note to copy it to this blog. It is worth sharing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back to sort of professional development, I don\u2019t think I need any new income sources in 2019. Let\u2019s see where things go with YouTube & Property management, focus on making those great (and having fun) and if those increase, I\u2019ll be happy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh, maybe something to close on which I was pretty excited by which was the quick re-connection session I had with my sister. I really do not ever talk about this kind of stuff on this blog\u2026a blog where seemingly nothing is off-limits <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I received an email from my half-sister..well they\u2019re all half siblings. I think I have 7 or more siblings. I don\u2019t know the count. There are 2 which I grew up with. M&C are my two sisters as in I know them the most. I still moved away when they were 12 & 8 years old to California then I came home to visit them every 2 years after that. I left their life pretty early on. My 3 half siblings from my Father I left them when they were just babies. I think they were 4-5 years old at most. I stopped visiting my Father, I tried to stay in touch but it just didn\u2019t work so he and I both gave up. I have a few more siblings when mom and dad remarried but these are in-laws or step? I don\u2019t know the official names but they\u2019re not blood related. Anyway, I have 5 then half-siblings and 3 of them I haven\u2019t spoken to in over 20 years. One of them, now in her 3rd year of college emailed me. That was a rough back and forth. It wasn\u2019t hard on either of us, it wasn\u2019t forced. We just shared things and talked a few times. She didnt\u2019 reply to my last email. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll hear from her again in the future. I asked her not to tell her Dad that we had reconnected. I just don\u2019t want to bother him with it. He has his own family and life. I last spoke to him in 2008..10 years ago. I don\u2019t know how we\u2019d reconnect or what the point of it would be. I don\u2019t hate him, I just don\u2019t know him. I don\u2019t even share his last name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was good to hear from my sister who I last saw when she was maybe 4 years old. She sounds really smart, incredible mature, just like someone who can truly accomplish great things in her life. I dont\u2019 see myself in her but more of she\u2019s going to be alright. You do want to know your family is out there doing okay even if you don\u2019t speak to them often or at all. I speak to my Dad every month, my mom every couple of months, my half-sisters once a year. So my Father every 10 years and other half-sister once every 5 years, that\u2019s a pretty good schedule. I told my sister I loved her. I don\u2019t know why I felt compelled to say that. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t love her, I just didn\u2019t really want to leave that unsaid. I love everyone in my family, even the people I don\u2019t talk to anymore. Family is forever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only 2018 regret, that I spent way too much money on Apple products this year. There was a separate post on this but I\u2019m still incredibly annoyed at how much I\u2019m paying for Apple products these days. It\u2019s not right. $1300 on an iPad, $1150 on an iPhone, $3800 on a MacBook and my next iMac will be around the same. Sigh. I love Apple. They\u2019re mis-treating their customer base. Most people can\u2019t afford to be Apple customers. This means that most people can\u2019t afford to have their privacy safe from evil corporations, they can\u2019t have the best design, the best apps, the best operating systems, the best computing experiences. Most people can\u2019t afford it and I\u2019d like Apple to change course. The next recession (there\u2019s always another recession on the horizon) will do very bad things to Apple if they keep this up. I want them to be more affordable to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s gotta wrap it up, right? Long Post. I\u2019m sorry! Thank you all for reading. Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These days, I don\u2019t have a lot of time to write and this is by design. 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