The life of a freelancer

Despite not having any benefits or a paycheck that is directly deposited on a bi-weekly basis freelancing is a great way to live. My recent jobs have been regularly arriving in my email inbox with directions exhorting me to a street address typically in New Hampshire or Vermont. These "missions" are sent from 1402 miles north-west of Boston. There lays a town called Eden Prairie Minnesota. In this town a company called BHI Corp. is nestled in a very normal looking office building just a few hundred meters from route 5 which inconsequently happens to be very close to the Minnesota Vikings training camp. Micah Garneau (a close friend of mine) is in the employ of this company and very often gives me jobs related to BHI customers in NH and VT. Thank you Micah!

Typically jobs for BHI are related to setting up a router/firewall and unhooking their expensive local ISP connection and installing a cheaper verizon or Covad alternative. Whenever I set up one of these stores they also become a free wifi hotspot. Take that starbucks. ITS FREE. HA. The remote access abilities of network admins now is pretty amazing. After setting up each router and connecting to the broadband connection BHI techs link in and start configuring anything they didn't pre-program into the asus routers on location in HQ. It's a pretty neat operation and allows me to travel around and see some pretty spots especially in vermont. Nashua and Manchester are alright but if you know these places, you'd probably agree you would rather be in Brattleboro or Burlington VT. That is... if you are anything like me.

Aside from that I am spending alot of time with my lady Heather, on Beacon Hill or at her place of work MIT. Hanging out and exploring MIT has been a thing of fascination for me as its a very stimulating area. Very intl, sciency, and actually quite pretty campus on the memorial drive side. The Lewis music library is fantastic and so is the humanities and science library. Wifi blankets the entire campus as an added plus so I sometimes sit outside and bang off resumes while looking for a "real" job.

I've been at this point in my life before and it definitely feels like I am in some sort of a circular holding pattern. Getting re-lodged in a corporate job seems like the next logical step if I am indeed cycling.


If you know me and you need to hire a fantastic out of work tech support rep feel free to call me!