New year, new site

Polyfonken dot com is new and improved. Of course most of you end up in here after being to the said site so this shouldn't be of news to you folks. Anyway, i spent a good couple of evenings on it and didn't use any nice gimmicks that would make it stand out. It's rather simple.

Since I'm currently in the business of trying to figure out what the hell kind of a job to apply to (one nice company already called less than two days after the new site was published), I've obviously been thinking about work and work ethics.

I'm no good with totally unchallenging safe jobs. After a remarkable stretch of work (creating Habbo) we spent at least a year fixing minor bugs, revising legal texts to make them fit the new teen demographic and all that kind of stuff. That was a real low point for me. My productivity had been very high, almost worryingly so, and now my job consisted of minor tweaks, some concepting, graphics and a lot of sitting around. (Note: It's possible that I actually got to do a lot even back then but after the stretch of doing Pellehyppy and Kultakala/Habbo, it sure felt like a life-sucking experience!)

For me there are few things in this world as depressing as wasted potential. And that kind of makes the whole job-seeking experience I'm about to embark on a bit more difficult: I don't want to end up doing totally brainless work (and it probably wouldn't earn me the massive amount of money I need to keep ahead of the loans etc.) but at the other end of that scale are thing like:
* overtime: a sign of lousy co-ordination if anything ... and I like my life.
* management jobs: I want to do stuff, not push pencils.
* huge companies: in my experience these end up making people a part of a machinery, usually one that's too big to be really effective. And I do not come with spokes.
* moving abroad. can't do this right now.

Let's see what happens. I surely can't do everything I want to and at least the music bit I have no pretensions of wanting to do professionally.

Anyways, enough of that. I did a new version of a Polyfonken tune yesterday. It's called "9 volt girl", and another one from day before that:

Nine Volt Girl

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