About Me
Who is Emily Robbins? I’m 35, live in the Oakland Hills with my amazing fiance Eric, our 4 cats (Marvin, Sam, Sophie, and Maggie), and our turtles Eger, George, and Baby Bliss.
Having grown up on Long Island (in the dreaded “Five Towns”, no less), I fled as quickly as possible (college). Went to Middlebury College in Vermont - (class of 93, BA in Mathematics). Loved it there, but felt the need for city living without the rush rush rush of NYC, and my love of computers and mild weather landed me in San Francisco (moved here without even visiting but high hopes that this would be the right place for me, and it turned out to be the best thing I ever did - it’ll be 12 years in October 2005 with no plans to leave - love it here! UPDATE: Moved to the Oakland Hills in Feb 2005, 25 minutes outside of San Francisco and LOVE IT - the Bay Area is such a great place to live!!)
I feel really blessed b/c the universe has guided me to where I am now.
After working crazy hours as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer for Borland, I ended up with RSI (repetitive strain injury) that put me on disability for over a year, left me with multiple level disc damage in my cervical spine in addition to bilateral ulnar neuritis, and limited the amount of time (esp. continual time) that I could spend on the computer. After realizing I didn’t want to stop working with computers, but that I was unhirable with the amount of breaks I’d need to take and days off I’d need during flare-ups, as well as much frustration with voice recognition software, I finally decided to just dive in and try and make a go of things on my own.
Now I’m self-employed doing Affiliate Marketing, SEO (search engine optimization), Domain Investing, and am the queen of finding high PPC keywords (and doing niche keyword research). I absolutely love the freedom of being my own boss and not wasting time sitting in endless meetings!
My family’s still on the east coast, and I miss ‘em a lot, especially my adorable nephews Joseph and Jacob (aged 10 and 5). Can’t seem to convince any of them to move out here — what’s up with that? ;P
Email address: blogging (at) emilyrobbins.com
Interests include (in no particular order):
movies, music, dancing, reading, arts and crafts, video games, xbox 360, wii, ps2, psp, gamecube, the internet, spinning poi, turtles, kitties, ipod, tivo, polymer clay, rubber stamping