Today the domain for my business website, orangeblossommedia.com, is renewed.  That means that the domain is one year old, and also means that I’ve been in business for a year (having had the paperwork done the same day that I bought the domain).  A good deal has changed in a year, but a good deal has also remained the same.  In that time I’ve been through two jobs and am on my third, all involving computers, but inching ever closer to the goal of my original business endeavor.  First it was computer sales and maintenance until the store that I was at closed down.  Next was data entry and website update for a rental company, which I left after receiving an offer from my current job doing production at a web design and marketing firm.  It’s been a great learning process through all of these positions as well as ones in the past (my main crash course in PHP programming came from a job two years ago doing database management for a radio station), and I’m still in learning mode today.

As far as changes, I’ve moved from the original goal of the business.  I was first doing web design for artists and local businesses, but being busy with other jobs left me little time to market my services, and they floundered a bit after a few less than stellar designs and clients.  Those at my current job have amazing patience, seeing as they are able to manage clients that I would have become frustrated with on my own, as well as offer a multitude more than I was able to.  It was fun though, and got me on a jumping off platform to decide what would be more beneficial to me in the end.

My main focus personally is now on my own projects, where I work at my own slow pace and to my own sensibilities, rather than the whims of others holding the checks, however small that they were.  I still plan on making use of the name, but making some changes.  That site will soon come down, to be replaced with another geared towards my current leanings, as well as projects that are forthcoming.  I know it all sounds rather vague, but I am juggling a few things, and honestly don’t know which ones will pan out and which ones will have been a loss of time.

Technically, this company has turned profit in the past year, though not much.  Meanwhile, here’s to hoping that the next year is a bit more noteworthy on that front.