About a year ago my main freelancing client Phoenix Graphix specializing in textbook publishing had to start cutting back due to the lack of work because the textbook industry had to restructure itself. With the economy and technology advancing textbooks would not be made the same way ever again. So I went from being a full-time contractor for Phoenix Graphix to only helping out one day a week.

Luckily while I was working for Phoenix Graphix I still kept my day job working as a manager for a local fast food restaurant a few days a week. With less hour freelancing I had to pick up hours at my day job and I am now working full-time as a Manager and only working a few days freelancing.

Now here is where the title of this post will start to make since.

While I like working as a manager of a fast food restaurant and I try my best at getting the job done correctly, I am not passionate about this job. After realizing this I started asking myself the hard questions:

• Why am I not passionate about this job?
• What can I do to make me more passionate about this job?
• What do I want to do as a career in 5 years?
• What am I passionate at?

Then today I realized that the best way for me to answer these questions and to be more passionate about my work is to write a personal mission statement. I have never thought about writing a mission statement for myself and my goals in life. Right now I do not know how hard this is going to be, but I know that if I want to succeed in everything that I do and be more passionate I need to have a mission statement for myself and goals.

Next week I will have my mission statement complete and will post it here.

My original plan to get my personal mission statement posted with-in a week has turned into a month now but my personal mission statement will be coming soon.

Andrew

Thanks,

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Photo Courtesy of Apple Inc.

With the new hardware announcement this past Monday from Apple Inc., they have left a hole in their MacBook product line. With only leaving the white MacBook in the “consumer” market, they will most likely be introducing an 8″ or 9″ MacBook with-in the next year or so to compete with the netbook market. This new line of machines that I am predicting would have the same build quality as all of the other Apple products but will have lower specs a smaller size to put these machines at the right price point.

I am still unsure on how an Apple tablet would fit into Apple’s overall business model but I guess that all of that can change like it did two years ago when they introduced the iPhone.

I have been playing with WordPress for the past few hours now, and am loving this bloging format. It is great to know that I have everything setup on my own hosting space and don’t have to worry about logging into WordPress.com. I have a lot of things to look at with WordPress and a lot of things to learn. My next step to to learn how to create custom themes and how to use WordPress as a CMS (Content Management system).

The branding for Chimp Graphics has been finished. 

While this means that everything for the Chimp Graphics brand has been set in stone, this does not mean that all of these ideas have been implemented. The main place where the Chimp Graphics brand has not been implemented is this website. Right now I do not have the time to redesign the Chimp Graphics website, that is the main reason why I switched to publishing this site with iWeb on the .Mac web service. I have a lot of great ideas on how to upgrade the website, but those ideas are going to wait till it is the right time to upgrade this website.

Till then take a look at the Photography Portfolio that has been added and look for the Print Portfolio to be added in the next few months.

Andrew