Heading to Vegas plus some Saturday thoughts

The last few weeks have been a bit crazy. Lot of fun Lending Club work. Lots of just ‘life’ stuff (Christmas, New Years, new girlfriend, etc).

And now I’m heading to Vegas!

I’m super excited. I know Vegas is supposed to be this crazy, intense experience. But really, I’m just hoping for a nice relaxing time to work, network and learn how to do my job better. Lending Club is sending me since one of my duties lately has been working with their affiliate program at commission junction.

I leave tomorrow and get back Wednesday morning.

Sometimes I feel way older than I am. I look at some of my friends (many who are older than my 25 year old self), and just feel old. Maybe it’s just me, and I think that it is, but I’ve always gotten along well with people older than myself. Most of my friends are my age, or older, but what I’m saying is that I often really relate to that 40-year that works in some corporate job.

Which is weird, because I work from home in a very non-corporate job, 1/2 time working for myself and 1/2 for a hot startup. So how do I relate?

I think it’s that I really love working. I love creating new things, building a product or service and making money from it. Sitting in front of my computer all day on the phone or web does get tedious…but I love it. Maybe I just don’t know anything else, but I really like working.

Which is good….because it’s going to take a freakin’ monster year

for me to hit my goals for 2009.

I told my employee this week about this blog. It actually wasn’t much of an event at all. I was surprisingly very underwhelmed by his response. It was nice. When I told my closer friend about a year and a half ago, she was the first one outside my family to know how bad I had screwed up. And it was a huge deal. This time, it was big, but it really wasn’t hard at all for me once I started explaining things. He was just really excited about how I laid out my plan for our business the rest of the year. I was fun, actually.

Does this mean I’ll be sharing more of my story in real life? No, I actually thought it might make me think that. But it did the opposite. It showed me that people care more about the present and the future, not the past. Especially not MY past. I know I care WAY more about my past than anyone else will. Especially anyone that cares about me.

Wow, this is a really rant of a post.

Anyway, back to Vegas. If you’re at ASW this next week and want to meetup, hit me up on twitter, and we should meetup. I’m meeting with a few other financial bloggers, which should be a ton of fun. Maybe I’ll even post some pics.

See ya next week. Vegas baby!

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