Overthink

Two weeks ago today I found out that I was due to be made redundant.

Great.

I can’t say that I experienced either Denial or Anger, being as I was kind of expecting the whole thing. I found myself almost instantly in the Acceptance phase and quickly turning towards one question: What next?

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Well, this isn’t exactly a vanity site, and it isn’t exactly a business site. I’ve always thought it a bit … odd that people try to separate the two when essentially they are the only person in a business.

Overthink, the business entity, is me. It represents me in a legal manner that allows me to do work for clients in an above board and safe (for both me and the clients) way. When I get hired to do some work for a company or person, they get me, so why would I hide who I am from them via an ultra un-personable business site?

Clients aren’t going to be scared off if they can see from this site that I am a human being with my own thoughts and mind. As it is I don’t tend to blog about personal things anyway – for the same reason I don’t shout out my personal business in the street (it’s personal!). So please assume that everything you find here is “safe for work” and non scary.

To be honest, the biggest issue I had with setting this site up was ideological – do I roll my own bespoke site, or use something already built? As you can probably see from the site itself, it’s quite clearly a wordpress based website. I wanted something up and running quickly, and I didn’t want to re-invent the wheel, so this excellent software is perfect for the task.

I have many plans for this space eventually, but my driving concern at the moment is to get exposure and to communicate with people. As such, rather then spending 3 weeks developing my site from scratch and being anonymous in that period, I installed and configured wordpress in about 30mins.

Every so often, you need to use the best tool for the job at hand regardless of whether it’s your favourite or not.