I wrote this as a comment but I thought i would post it here:

I am 29 with a wife and 3 kids and do web development and work at home. I started out as a 20 year old that would work for hours on end and I have been able to refine my process.

Really what this boils down to is 2 things.

1. Family people tend to be older and more mature. Kids do something to you and your maturity level skyrockets (usually). I always say that a guy is never ready to have kids and will never be ready until he HAS kids.

2. This is exactly what the 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss is talking about. The idea of if you have something ELSE you HAVE to get done then you will work more diligently and more focused to get it done.

Thoughts?

the letterhead turned out nice but the envelopes were shifted and the bleed didn’t bleed like it was suppose to. I normally call but this time I decided just to submit my compliant via their email form since I don’t really need the letterhead until I do a mail out sometime end of April.

So I get the standard “Thank you for your email” auto-response but didn’t hear anything back from them. I didn’t think much about it since i have been busy on other things and then 2 days ago I get this email:

Dear Valued Customer,
Thank you for contacting VistaPrint, the online solution for “Best Printing. Best Price.”

We apologize for responding so late to your email. We experienced a technical problem with our email processing system
and as such our team was not able to view and respond to your email. We have since corrected the error but are not able to
retrieve your email.
We do want to assist if possible. We hope that perhaps you have called us at our toll free number – 1-800-961-2075. Or if you prefer to email us,
please send us an email from our contact form – http://www.vistaprint.com/customer-care/contact-us.aspx?xnav=foot.
Again, we apologize for this situation and the inconvenience or frustration it may have caused. Please contact us with any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,
Your VistaPrint
Customer Service Team
—– jay@cyber-jay.com Wrote —–
Webform Contact
The letterhead looks great but the envelopes are about an 1/8th of an inch off. The flap was suppose to have a bleed and does in the document but there is a white line along the left side when it was printed. Please reprint the envelopes.

Ok so that was the entire email… something look funny to you? Yeah the email they claim to not have is at the bottom of their email. Um ok. So you weren’t able to recover my email yet you were able to reply with it? WTF?

yeah… someone needs to smack them upside the head.

The parent company deals with mostly the retail construction space so we were asked to come up with a system that would help them do things, “better, faster cheaper”. Well this product started to get used a lot and one of the major things was that clients for the other companies could login to their projects and see what was going on. A lot of them loved it so much that they wondered how they could get their hands on it.. thus SpotOn! was born.

I really enjoy working on “consumer” apps. There is just something about creating something that a mass of people WANT to use, not just because it is part of their job and mandated by someone who probably has never even used said application. I enjoy getting feedback from customers and making my products better based on the overall needs of the user base.

That all being said we had something very exciting happen to us. We got mentioned on Web Worker Daily. This is huge as our app is really geared for that web based collaboration that a lot of web workers are geared for.

Hook another one for ColdFusion!

Off and on throughout my web career I have been a remote web worker; Because of this I utilize the services of many a franchise locations. I was excited when one of my favorite blogs Web Worker Daily (and fellow WordPress user) had a post and listed one of my favorite hang outs, Panera, as a web worker friendly place.

Go check out the article!