I must say that I am so glad that I am back and working in the kind of environment I love. The kind of small team, creative, energetic, productive and zany environment that really gets my juices flowing.

When the work comes in and the production engines have to roll you knuckle down, feel the crack of the whip from a project manager and you drive on and knock the tasks down one-by-one. When it’s time to play, you play, and you all get along great. There is none of the arrogance, and subversive kind of office politics, that pervade much larger firms.

Over the last ten years I have had the opportunity to work with some great and interesting people. I have learned a lot about offices, companies and businesses, how they work and what I like and don’t like.

During the course of the early 2000′s I worked with a small but dedicated team at the Noerr Programs, helping them to streamline their business. The efforts paid dividends and the relationship I had with my client was awesome. In fact i still reminisce about it, and continue to enjoy the good times that were with the company and its 2 great figureheads Judy and Philip.

When the fun ended there and I joined the team of 16 at Last.fm, it was fascinating to see the company grow from that initial pod, to well over 60 in London and who knows how many elsewhere. I was intrigued by the slow splintering of, what was in the beginning, a pretty tight-knit group. A group that, from my perspective, had become nothing more than a set of departments, or better still, cliques, each with their own sense of importance within the overall power-structure, and which personally I tried to skirt between, though as with all things in the end, you never win playing mister nice guy.

Now I find myself at Stink Digital. It’s a great little and energetic team, well bonded and supported by a much larger production house that has been running for the last decade, but which, for all intent and purposes, is its own business. Based out of East London, most conveniently, just down the end of my street in Printing House Yard, the 6 guys I currently work with are a blast.

As I always like to say to others: “Life is one big vacation.” And, if you can’t enjoy it, you might as well be dead!