Daniel Marino

Clarification

I try to keep things on a more professional level when writing here, but sometimes I talk about more personal matters. I recently posted a journal entry where I spoke of project management. I wrote:

Lately I’ve been having a hard time with the freelancing. I enjoy it and quite frankly, need to do it so that my kids can eat. But for whatever reason, my scheduling has been really off. Partly because I may have taken more projects than I should have. Some projects were scheduled to go one week, and they ended up running two months.

I’d like to clarify that statement. I’m not going to deny what I wrote, but the point I was trying to make is that I have taken several projects on, all of which I’m capable of handling, and they’ve run longer than expected, due to unforeseen circumstances. Because these projects are running longer than expected, they’re starting to overlap. I never accept work that I do not think I can complete on time, and I have never missed a deadline due to negligence on my own part. I want everyone to know that nobody’s work is suffering, and I have not lost sight of my or my client’s priorities.

I don’t want my readers to lose sight or misinterpret the krux of that article. I was simply talking about getting hi-speed internet at home, and trying to find project-management software that I was happy with.