Trading Swan Song

My last two years have been an absolute whirlwind. I am sure I am not the only one who feels like that, however I have had to live a double life in my professional world. This was my choice as it was the only way I could get to where I am today and if you’ve been a reader of the blog for a while you’d have read about this before ;-)

During the day, I spent my days on a trading desk pushing buttons and trading stocks on Wall St. for an English bank. At the same time, every night when I got home from the “day job,” I wrote and executed with the help of our Cutcaster team our ideas for a new marketplace. This marketplace was open to anyone who wanted to buy or sell content and mimicked the stock marketplace that I worked in during the day.

My double life is now over. No more getting up from the trading desk to make secret calls to content creators. No more looking over my shoulder at work to see who was looking over my shoulder at on my computer screens. No more stress of having to keep a secret. And all I have to say to that is “Hallelujah!”

I have been called crazy by most. (Yes, I have a bit of ADHD) I have been wished well and congratulated by others. And I have had the weight of two lives lifted off my shoulders and replaced by the excitement of working on our passion. Last week, I left my stock broker job on Wall St. to pursue a new kind of stock; stock footage and photos at Cutcaster, fulltime as the guy that does the things that have to get done and give our community and marketplace a fighting chance to distinguish itself. It’s exciting, risky, scary and the best decision I have ever made, as any person who becomes their own boss would probably tell you. It feels that way now ;-) I knew this decision and time was coming but moving out of my comfort zones has never felt so exhilarating.

In conclusion, as a first time boss (of myself), I am setting my hours long and my work week is 7 days, so that Cutcaster reaches its full potential. My email is john at Cutcaster dot com and my cell is 215-688-2751. I have made a pledge that I will make myself available and give people a way to contact me.



So will you remember your first…

Sale?

I will.

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