This Business and Moment...

Still unsure if I have a contract for next year yet. Or who my boss is. Which is nice. They've put in a ton of meetings for me next year and I just got awarded 2 internal awards for awesome work (not sure how but I don't complain :P ) so hopefully I'll get one thrown my way.

Always end of year fun. Had my birthday at the weekend and now I'm just about to head to A&E as I've ****** up my back again. Recurring issue I just never have got sorted, so thought it's about time I checked it out
 
I've been trying to find out if I have a job next year or not, and from what I have ascertained, I do... I think. The person who's taken over the sample domain space that I'm in is a really sound American guy and we get on well. He said if I don't want to be the technical resource like the French dude said, I don't have to. I was like yeaa, but contract renewal time...I'm just playing ball until it's all sorted! He laughed. So hopefully a bit less stress over christmas! I probably won't find out until the new year in writing lol which is stupid but standard. You come into work in Jan assuming the paperwork will be done at some point.

Anyway, I've been putting some internal irons in fires trying to craft a logistics team, which covers all logistics software. There is a woman who I work with who manages a couple of the tools now, I want to get mine under her area, but build it out as a logistics specific team and not just her and work on managing the space with her. Figured if I'm here I may as well make some impact. Been coasting since May, but still delivering. :D

That's boring work though. Outside of that we've been smashing stuff out. Our VolAir app is so very close... saying that, our main developer has gone AWOL just before finishing. Yay. :/ he's a great coder, really good, yet doesn't want to do it for a living and was fitting kitchens! Lost that job, was doing this on the side and has some serious mental health issues. We've had to talk him down a lot. Now he's gone AWOL, he told us he was leaving slack, not sure why, but said to email him and he was taking some space/ time. Management is fun sometimes :D

Latest demo is pretty sweet:

Goat Cash is mega fun... our game Goat Clash is very nearly released. Even have an OCUK dude at GOAT HQ!

Signed our partner agreement with our charity too, so as of next year will be giving away real goats :) woo!
Just need to get another exchange listing now, but I'm not paying the huge fees people are charging.

SaveNode is going... I've brought on one more person and hopefully a second soon. That'll be 3 developers and we need it. I'm in the process of building out an index fund, so a lot of relationship management and BS work tbh but needs to be done and seems to be my bag. Market has chucked our token price like mad, but hey, we're still here building but just have a **** budget of **** all to work with. I was trying to see how @Phate could do some work with us for savenode, but it's been a bit manic, so priorities changed. I haven't forgotten you dude :P

Now I need a coffee and to work out who I'm supposed to be emailing next :P
 
I started my business in October and just finished selling off the last of our initial stock. To me it's a good step as it shows the product sells well. As far as I know there are other products that do the same thing, but none in the UK look like ours, which is a selling point I'll admit. Aesthetics were a high priority when designing the product. Just had our second stock land and this time it has our branding on it. Just the business website URL, as I'm still in talks with the manufacturer about getting our logo put on it instead, all cost dependant.

Did a collaboration with a twitter blogger and we got over 1000 followers in 1 week which was a decent start. In the new year there will be other products added that are wireless and hopefully will sell just as well for us. I know the new year will be quiet so using that time to move the website e-commerce platform and re-do the website while it's quiet. I don't need to draw a salary from the business as I work full time so I'm not concerned that sales might be slow after the festive period. Gives me time to do the website properly.

Anyone else got any news?
Come on man, share what it is!! Sounds fantastic, but now I wanna know what it is you've made! DETAILS!!
 
This week further plans beginning. Beginning approach to PM's Manager to say hello and ask for virtual coffee... :)
haha get in there. Do that PR needed ;)

First day back in the office and **** I have a lot to do. I was tasked with technical documentation of 5 solutions and integrations with the system I'm ASM for before Christmas. It's not my area, and I don't want to do it as it's a **** of a job. I'm going to have to work out what the **** all this stuff does. The guy who asked me to do it is the PM on the project and not my boss, but I really don't want to rock the boat as an external employee, but the thought of it just makes me want to run away. If this was the job I applied for, I simply wouldnt have.
He's in tomorrow, so I have to crack as much as I can today, but I'm on here procrastinating. :P

One good thing though, we're in Beta now on Goat Clash, it's sweet as. Nearly ready to go live there! Got some epic stuff planned for that. I really want to get to the point we can bring on some more devs and build a "Goat Hunter" AR mobile game where, like pokemon Go, you find goats in the wild and have to butt them to defeat them. Each goat is a different level and worth different amounts of GOAT Cash. To level up you can just get more XP playing, or buy better horns etc with GOAT tokens. Me and my 11yr old came up with this and think it's ******* ace :D

VolAir coming on with the app too... last little bits to do, everyone did nothing over the break so we're all pumped to get it finished now.

Set myself a wunderlist of "goals" for this year. They're all measurable, and not resolutions, just things I want to do and they're done in phases so I feel like they're all achievable. Got the kids to do the same. You know you've been brainwashed by corp ******** when you catch yourself saying "now, you can't have that as it's not a SMART goal. You need it to be well defined and measurable" jesus, Ross.

Happy new year all, let's **** this one up and make it our bitch!
 
Published on our confirmed corp partnership with the NGO Heifer International. https://medium.com/@goatcash/goat-cash-heifer-international-goat-to-be-great-f80298bc6b4c

Awesome stuff and they're great too, this is how the humble goat has helped so many!


Now through Goat Cash our donations will be used to help fund that!

Took me so much corp red tape to make it happen, but it's all done. Next week I'd like to get this dApp for Goat Clash out, and I'm working on a new exchange listing too.
Got 3.5hrs sleep last night as my daughter was sick all night, and had a day of back to back meetings, so novartis work today has been so damn hard. Now to ride home and cry :D
 
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