JediWright.com

While seemingly inevitable, it still sucks to face the facts and have to lay yourself off from your own company.

This is exactly what I’ve had to do this week to keep operations going at Distinctivefabric.com. So I’ve filed unemployment in California, though with their budget issues, my chances of getting unemployment income looks bleak.

Here’s what my resume looks like on the CalJOBS board:

My CalJOBS resume

And on the job hunt front, my options there seem equally dispairing as:

1. I don’t have my own vehicle and since I live in the rural country, public transit is not an option.
2. I have horrible credit and many low-end paying jobs (which are really probably my only option) do credit checks. I know because I’ve been refused a job countless times due to this issue.
3. The economy. Duh.

Oh what a great time to begin fatherhood. Moving here was one of my life’s biggest mistakes yet. A rebound from this would be a miracle.

Today I submitted my resume, along with my LinkedIn profile, to Twitter for their Founder Associate position.

I asked Alissa, an old west coast friend, what she thought of this and she graciously offered to put in a good word for me.

I’ve had minimal luck getting jobs I’ve gone after previously, so it’ll be interesting to see what kind of feedback, if any, I get on this.
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Update 1.22 9:07am EST:
I’m questioning the appropriateness of this post right now…I’m so used to posting on just about anything I do, it’s become so ingrained that it was an automatic reflex to do the same with this post. Hopefully I’m not committing any sort of faux pas by doing so.)

Baby’s coming any day now, Tristan is going insane with the wait and feels like it’ll never happen. I keep promising it’ll be over soon, but my words seem to be falling on deaf ears.

Nothing for it but to wait it out and do whatever I can to keep her occupied until then.

Tough timing though trying a new job, prep for the cross-country move back again, and a slew of other equally complicated details. But I’m confident everything will work. I always work things out with half or less the trouble perceived from the start.

Now if only she could share in my optimism…

My office is too cold, had to move to the dining room to work last night and today.

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Today I finished the subfloor.

It came out nearly perfect, except for one block leveling form. I opted not to redo it as it doesn’t impact the floor’s integrity nor will it effect the finished look (though it looks funny now). I should start laying the flooring tomorrow and in the end, no one will ever know. Except us .

I also was happy to recycle the plastic bags the insulation came packaged in as additional vapor barrier protection, the original concrete floor I broke up I also reused in another project down by the river, as a rainwater runoff filter and barrier.  It helps sort some of the debris, soil and what not from the farm field above, before dumping into the river below, while retaining much (hopefully all) the embankments soil on the trail leading down to the river.

In addition, the insulation I’ve been installing throughout this room (ceiling, walls, subfloor) will greatly help reduce heat loss after it’s finishing, thereby reducing the heating needed (probably a natural gas heater).

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I’ve been working on various projects at the River on and off over the years. This particular job featured here was something I’ve been putting a few hours in here and there over the last few weeks.

Today I finished framing out the subfloor.

It’s been a fun project and a timely one as it’s given me something to focus my energy on instead of freaking out about DistinctiveFabric.com’s state of affairs. Plus, it’s fun work building floors, decks and similarly constructed projects.

This one is especially fun because its one of the last remaining projects on one massive project started over ten years ago and it’ll probably the last project I get to do at this property, potentially ever. Once I’m back in LA again I doubt I’ll have another opportunity to work there.

Anyway, today’s job finishing up the framing was one of the most grueling days back. I was up uber-early to readjust my sleeping schedule and the temperature while working was near freezing. But I still got it done and enjoyed the process and steps by which I worked.

Tomorrow or whenever next I work on it, will see some finishing touches to finish securing the framing, cleaning up, fastening the plastic vapor barrier, and laying out the insulation.

Then the real fun part begins with the installation of the finished floor: white pine tongue and groove flooring.

My primary source of income has recently dried up and am in great need of immediate employment. Require a net minimum of $2,800 per month in salary just to cover essentials for me, my partner and our baby due in two weeks.

Any leads anyone can share with me would be immensely appreciated!

Employment history below.
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EMPLOYMENT
Distinctivefabric.com, Inc. – Present
2079 E 15th St, #330, LA CA 90021

Chief Executive Officer
*Management of corporate affairs, taxes, corporate filings, license/permit renewals, etc.
*Oversee web development, product creation and launches, marketing campaigns, sustainability integration, etc.
*Excel in dynamic and fast-paced order fulfillment, Internet startup and management environments.

The Do LaB / Lightning In A Bottle Arts and Music Festival – Present
2023 Bay St, LA CA 90021

Senior Production Artist, Assistant Director of Sustainability
*Assist in design, building, installing, and transporting large-scale art installations and event productions
*Co-manage client-relations pre- and post-production
*Assist Director in greening company operations and country’s leading sustainable arts and music festival
*Co-manage 200+ paid and volunteer staff
*Excel in management and coordination of multi-tasking, high end installations and client-interfacing

Green Gurus, LLC – Present
2079 E 15th St, #330, LA CA 90021

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
*Manage team, clients, corporate affairs, marketing, web development, etc.
*Excel in dynamic and fast-paced Internet startup and management environments.

Rooftop Promotion: April 2003 – April 2004
Gardena, CA

Director of Media Relations
*Coordination of artist promotions through press and radio contacts
*Managed Filemaker database of press and radio contacts
*Excelled in multi-artist PR

Hidden River Adventure: August 1996 – November 2001
Monocacy, PA

General Manager
*Managed inventory, equipment, group bookings, ecotours, transportation, staff, maintenance
*Lead carpenter and builder of corporate offices
*Excelled in customer relations

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
*Applications: Microsoft Office XP, Word and Excel; Apple OS X; Google Docs: Document, Presentation, Spreadsheets, Adwords, Adsense; Open Office, KOffice, The Gimp; Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver; QuarkXPress; Transmit, Fugu, Telnet Launcher, Filemaker, Drupal CMS, Plesk and cPanel; Abelton Live, Reason
*Languages: Basic UNIX, PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS
*Browsers: Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera
*Social Networks, Utilities and Apps: Basecamp, Wiki, WordPress, Blogger, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Posterous, Facebook, Myspace, Tribe, LinkedIn, YouTube, Revver, Vimeo, Digg, Hugg, etc.

EDUCATION
Santa Monica Community College
Santa Monica, CA
Computer Science
Pursued completion of undergraduate degree

The Bradley Academy / Art Institute
York, PA
Multimedia
Pursued completion of undergraduate degree