Wanna Be Starting Somethin’…

It has been a company-wide exercise at eHire over the past several months to discover and center on our “why”.  Why do we do what we do?  There have been so many great ones shared, that they inspired me to write about mine.

I do what I do because I’m deeply passionate about using my abilities to help my friends and business partners breathe life into business ideas, and help bring other talented (and like-minded) people to bear on the same challenges.  Invariably, I get asked 100 times a year how I could possibly do my job for 18 years, and not get burned out.  The answer is simple…it has never felt like a job to me.  I simply love what I do.

As it turns out, I’m not alone.

In the past 12 months, I have spoken to dozens of friends, co-workers and business partners about their “whys”…and while the answers vary, they all feel the same way about their career.  It’s not a job to them either.  In fact, I had a friend illustrate this perfectly to me once.  He said if you video recorded him from the time he awoke until the time his head hit the pillow at night, it would be nearly impossible to separate his work & personal lives.  For some of us, it is not WHAT we do, it is WHO we are…and I consider myself to be fortunate that this applies to me too.

All of this brings me to one last thing…and it’s the one special thing that really gets me excited to get out of bed in the morning…and that is, creating something new.

To that end, I am fortunate to be currently working with some of the incredible folks inside of eHire, along with some of our more “entrepreneurial” friends to create an Atlanta-based Dev Shop that will exist as a complement to the currently available eHire services.  The working title of this project is eHire Labs. We’re focused on outsourced or “near-shored” development projects in the following technology areas:  Java / Open Source, Web / UI Development, Mobile (Web & Apps) and Microsoft Technologies.

We will be releasing additional information about this project in the coming weeks, and if you are a technical project executive, stakeholder or individual contributor within our “circle of trust”…there’s a VERY high likelihood you have already spoken with us at length.  If you haven’t, be patient…we are going to want to talk to EVERYONE about this.