Some of you may have heard that I quit my day job a couple months ago. For nearly 12 years, I worked for Sage Software as principal engineer for their MAS 90 and MAS 200 product lines. Although I had a great, secure job and tons of good friends that I worked with, I reached a point where I had lost much of my passion and was feeling burned out.

I spent most of July in semi-retirement mode - taking it easy, hanging out with Claire, helping with Abbie and Alyssons' wedding plans, and just plain messing around. I also put the word out that I had left Sage, and received many calls and emails from friends in the industry that wanted to discuss my plans. A company in Chicago flew me to their office and courted me for a director of engineering position, and another company close by in OC also offered me a job. I finally decided that if I wanted just a job, I should have stayed at Sage. What I really wanted to do was start my own gig.

A few weeks ago, steezware was launched. I've already completed my first consulting job, and have others in the pipe line. Several Sage resellers and developers are talking to me and, hopefully, I'll grow this thing into something fun and profitable. It sure has been fun so far, and I really need to thank my awesome wife, Mary, for being so supportive and for bringing home a regular paycheck while I get steezware off the ground. Also, all thanks to Alysson for designing me some cool logo stuff, and to our good friend, John Strain, for setting me up a very bitchen web site.

Check it out... http://steezware.com

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