Back in 2011 I had decided to bring on a business partner and changed my name of my company for a few years to Rabe Tigert Designs. I had a colleague send this to me today as they were going through old press releases and found my old Company written up in the Art Institute Alumni paper. It is sad that this college that I gave my blood, sweat, and tears to is no longer around but how fun to see an announcement from 8 years ago about an old design talk we gave as well as an old blog I managed that I completely forgot about.

Business takes many turns to finally get to where you want to be and this was a fun partnership for a few years. This partnership allowed me to grow into more of the construction world as I was finally able to focus on building, while the daily designs were being taken care of while I was on job-sites. It was a great time and extremely busy. I was running a company, managing 2 - 3 interns at a time, making our business grow, taking on government designs, guiding my new business partner, and growing my building side of my firm. And I did this all while raising my son who just seemed to love being with me and all the people who worked for me. I love where I am now and all the hard work we have done to get where we are today. It is always fun to go down memory lane to see how far you really have come.