I did it. I still can’t believe it, but I did it.
I landed my dream job. I am now working at the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia as a WordPress website developer, email marketing manager, and overall digital marketing geek.
Let me take you back to 2003 for just a minute.
It has been quite an incredible journey over the last several years. I am happy to report that the culmination of all my hard work and overcoming obstacles came in the form of landing my dream job.
On January 25th, I started my first day on the job at the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. I get to combine my three loves in this job: nonprofits, digital marketing, and WordPress.
I have started a new WordPress theme project and have blogged about its progress. I’m happy to say that version 1.0.0 is complete.
The theme is called Oded, named in loving memory of my father Oded Stitt.
Last week, I started a new WordPress theme project that I’m calling Oded. It’s named in memory of my Dad.
Man, it’s been a year.
This month marks the finish of year number two of this phase of my life: my second chance. In December 2014, I committed to chasing a decade-old dream of becoming a web developer and starting my own business after my ex-wife had a health scare. In the few months that followed, I lost my marriage, a dear friend died, and then my Dad died within 1.5 months of each other.
It has been a journey. 2015 was unbelievable. 2016 has proven no less unbelievable.
I just recently got my first plugin published in the WordPress plugin repository and wrote a tutorial on how I coded it.
I am now tackling a more ambitious project: building a theme that I plan on submitting to the theme repository.
I’m calling the theme Oded. It is named in loving memory of my father, Oded Stitt.
