Posts Tagged ‘aol’
Stock Market Woes: C’mon TWX!
I need TWX to do better within the next 30 days so that I can take advantage of my stock options before they expire! It hasn’t done too hot since I quit (or the past year for that matter)…I should probably just pull the trigger before it gets any lower. The picture below also makes me sad. TWX was the only stock that’s down of the few that I follow. Even the pathetic Blockbuster was trending with the market.
Goodbye AOL
Yesterday was my last day at AOL. After interning for two summers, more than five years as a full-timer and many dodged rounds of layoffs, I have decided to move onto the next step in my career. There are many reasons why I should stay at AOL, but there are some that make it necessary to leave. I owe a lot if not all of my development to AOL – after all it was my first job right out of college. I didn’t think that my last two weeks would be that difficult, but I have started to realize how many people I have worked and become friends with over the years.
My next company is a small ~130 person company in Rockville, MD called InvestorPlace Media. I’m not too excited about having 495 and 270 in my commute, but I am really excited about the level of responsibility and potential for influence that I can have. I will be expanding on some of my natural curiosity of internet as a Web Analyst, analyzing traffic trends and hopefully maximizing nerdy buzz words for them like ROI, Page Views and Unique Visitors. There is much to learn about web analytics, so currently I have my nose buried in Avinash Kaushik’s excellent and extremely thorough book Web Analytics: An Hour a Day. I saw him speak when he came to AOL, and that definitely piqued my interest in the subject.I’ll miss all the good times, beer bashes, team outtings, the gym, bowling, but mostly the people. It has been an extremely tough choice for me to leave, and it may end up being a great decision or a terrible decision, but I won’t know until I try…
10.16.07
NY Times: AOL to Trim 2,000 Jobs in a Continuing Overhaul
I’m still here. The next few months should be interesting.
I’m Home!
The rate of pictures taken per day definitely waned off towards the end of the week of my trip to India, but head on over for the last few pictures that I took.
Bangalore India Trip Set on Flickr.
