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- trooperbill0
From the age of 9 i wanted to be a designer when asked why i remember answering 'because everything needs designing' which everyone seemd to think was a pretty smart thing for a 9 year old ginger kid to say.
i took art and technical drawing classes for GCSE and then moved to 2 diplomas in graphic design at college, then a BA Hons degree in multimedia.
i left uni and wanted to set up an online portfolio (this was back in 1998) having been given no guidance on how to start looking for a job at uni so looked for a isp. i found a shop on a highstreet that sold 'internet access' and went in and stated my spec' they asked why do you need all this stuff so i told them i was a designer wanting to create websites and needed portfolio space.
the next day they hired me to create websites for their clients. 6 months later i poached their technical guy and sales guy and set up my own little studio... we hired, we fired, went through 2 bubbles, the sales guy left leaving me to do all of the customer facing stuff 7 years on i split from the tech guy as he preferred to get drunk and roll in late every morning and let project scope creep and project timeframes run way past due leaving me as the customer facing guy to take all the shit.
now i work in the private sector and loving the steady pay cheque, lack of customer facing duties and 9-5 working hours... oh and i moved from design to seo as theres more monies in it lol.
i did everything backwards lol.
- you were wise at 9!
also, I miss the 90s, too. that was a crazy time and I had to devote it to studies...popovich - on a side note: do you SEO guys guarantee anything to your clients? I had one inquery, they asked me that question.popovich
- no no guarantees as i dont know what google is going to do in the next few days let aklone this yeartrooperbill
- you were wise at 9!