As of yesterday I'm self employed. Small website design company doing CMS and E-Commerce sites for small businesses, individuals, small charities, academic research etc.

I've done a couple of sites for friends and family as frisbees but I'm currently developing three sites for paying customers and have a couple other leads. No-one has actually paid me for anything yet though.

It's been quite hard wearing two hats and having essentially two jobs, but as of this week it's full force on the new business. Wish me luck.

Thank you!

Good luck Mod!

I inhertited some cash after I finished college. I have enough to stay afloat for a while yet and have some money locked in property, so I took a basics course on music production and have been teaching myself since. I've only given one track to a fairly well known professional DJ and label owner who told me that it sounded like a track by one of my heroes and would be perfect for another one of my heroes' labels and clubnights in Germany and Ibiza. Since then I've got another 10 tracks of a similar standard. I'm kind of prospecting.

@XTC/Lawro Hype mix: Nice work, that has to be the ultimate reward there - validation by your hero. I'd love to look into that kind of thing but I could add that to the list of the thousands of thing I want to do, might hobby it up later in life.

Also kudos to Mod et al.

Unlikely wrote:

I do spreadsheets.  At least that's basically all I've done this week.

Quite often, that's what I do too.

There's a flight sim built into Excel, best of both worlds.

I do 3D modeling/Animation and Compositing/2D animation. I tend to boil that down to Multimedia Designer.
I work for a company that aid evil global corporations in the selling of products, fixtures etc to supermarkets and other stores.
I spend about one day a fortnight being creative and the rest tending to the needs and general fuckwittery of sales people who think they are designers.
Those Apprentice tasks where they all gather around a designer to create a bottle label or a shop sign. Those shots pretty much summarise my life. Make something good then have it slowly whittled down into shit by a panel of idiots.

g.man wrote:

I point tv cameras at footballers mostly.  I don't do wedding videos fyi g.man

What if a footballer got married, or someone got married at a football ground?

I'd have liked my wedding filmed on one of those XMos.

Unlikely wrote:

Mine are better.

Of this I have no doubt.  I had to do a mIRC script for work this week.  I don't think it works so I've subcontracted Beano.

Elmlea wrote:

I'd have liked my wedding filmed on one of those XMos.

That would make for a very long wedding video.



g.man

Some of you are quite specialised. How did you find the slots that you fit, so to speak?

I've never known what I want to do (professionally, anyway), so I set out with two aims:

1) Earn as much as I can (if I'm going to waste large chunks of my life doing things I don't really want to do I'd better sell my time well).

2) Be as much of a generalist as possible, so as to keep my options open and try lots of things, and hopefully stumble across something that inspires me.

After a few experiments, this has resulted in my becoming a consulting product manager. Everything is a product, so product managers can work in lots of different environments / industries and apply many of the same skills / experience. Most importantly, for me anyway, in many companies the product manager is given responsibility for their product portfolio (profit & loss) which gives me a sense of ownership and contribution - a bigger cog, I suppose.

If anyone's struggling to figure out what they want to be, I can sincerely recommend it.

I want a bonus.

Look in your spreadsheets.  EDIT:  Elm.

revelthedog wrote:

Unlikely wrote:

Mine are better.

prove it. What do you do? Spreadsheets and travel to Leeds?

I'm a project manager.  I manage projects, apparently.  There are a lot of spreadsheets involved fyi.  The Leeds visits aren't work-related.