Goodbye KurtSulting! Hello Smartcity.com
Gone are the days of watching Barker’s Beauties ply treasures on The Price is Right. Gone are the lunchtime walks and existentialistic conversations with Cooper the German Shorthaired Pointer. Gone also are the damning “my printer won’t print,” or “I’ve lost my internet connection and we can’t do work” conversations. Sadly missed will be the “my computer display doesn’t work anymore and I wonder if storing it in the oven’s broiler tray had something to do to it,” backed by revealing evidence of baked keyboard chicklets popped off like corn kernels through a hot air popper. Kind of how I feel lately – fried by IT and tired of price gouging by the bigger guys.
The good news is that I’m leaving my KrutSulting practice in exchange for a General Manager position for the DC Convention Center. The newly built facilty encompasses 2 MILLION square feet of space! Holy KrutKrap! I only live in 650 sq. feet – I guess something has to balance me out in the Universe. In a 180 degree shift from supporting small business clients, I now will be dealing with the completely different audience of exhibit show planners, event planners, exhibitors, customer service teams, IT staff and the humdinger, the DC Political machine! WooHoo! Errr.. woohoo.
So for the next couple of weeks I’m off to the sunny destinations of San Diego (for training) and Las Vegas (for more training). Don’t worry Dad, I’ll figure out how to do remote assistance for you – even if it requires bribing the local computer tech in Fort Kent Maine.