A New Direction

I left Berkeley in December 2001 and moved back to Oakhurst. Oakhurst was a place I never planned to move back to. After living in Berkeley for 5 years, I guess I just missed living in a small town. Also, I really wanted to be in business for myself. There were many reasons for my decision. So anyway, I decided that it would be best for me to move back to the mountains.

It was a fairly easy move and I was happy to be back in Oakhurst. After taking a few weeks off, I started my new business. During those few months, I reconnected with old friends, made new friends and had a great time. I wasn't quite prepared to retire at the age of 23, so it was time to get back to work.

Oakhurst Online was formed in October of 2002. While working out of my home office, I developed dozens of websites for local residents and businesses. It was enough to make a living and I had flexible hours. After this, I never wanted to go back to work for some large corporation.

Now it's time to really gear up and get some things accomplished. Corky and Scott opened Oakhurst Computers last month and made me their General Manager. In addition to helping them out with the store, I can continue to run the web business I started five years ago. I'm very excited about this opportunity and am enjoying going to an office every day. I'm definitely not retired. In fact, I'm working six days a week and am busier than ever.

Scott and Corky are incredibly intelligent and are fun to work with. I'll learn a lot from them and perhaps teach them a thing or two. The store was very busy today and we have only been open for a few weeks. I'm confident that this will be a successful venture for all three of us.

If you are wondering why you don't see me playing around town as much these days, it's because I'm working.

Bob Marley - Work lyrics

We, Jah people, can make it work;
Come together and make it work, yeah!
We can make it work;
We can make it work.

Five days to go: working for the next day;
Four days to go: working for the next day;
Say we got: three days to go now: working for the next day;
Two days to go (ooh): working for the next day, yeah.
Say we got: one day to go: working for the -
Every day is work - work - work - work!

We can make it work;
We can make it work.
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/Short guitar break/
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We, Jah people, can make it work;
Come together and make it work.
We can make it work;
We can make it work.

We got: five days to go work, oh! - working for the next day, eh!
Four days to go: working for the -
Three days to go now: working for the next day, yeah!
Two days to go: working for the next day
Say we got: one day to go now: working for -
Every day is work, wotcha-wa!
(Work!) I work in the mid-day sun;
(Work!) I work till the evening come!
(Work!) If ya ain't got nothing to do!
(Work!) Ooh-ooh-ooh-oo-oo-ooh!
(Work!) /fadeout/