I’m fortunate by chance and training to have enough of the skills required to compete in the capitalist economy, and am also unusually adept at putting myself into places where opportunity not only knocks but jumps up into my arms like an over-eager cat.

This time is no exception.

Hello, everyone, I’m now a CTO.

Well, almost. I haven’t officially started yet. But I will June 1. It’s a small but growing (and accelerating in its rate of growth) company that I helped get off the ground from scratch four years ago, and have worked for as a contracting consultant ever since then part time.

It’s not a publicly-traded company, so it’s not like I’m getting absurd stock options or anything like that, but it’s a group of people that I’ve known and worked with for many years now and I trust them. And likewise, I hope.

C suite…that doesn’t even seem real. The North Florida misfit I was all those years ago wouldn’t believe it.