New Regular Job

I don’t know what it is about people who work online, but when you talk about the dreaded 9 – 5, they freeze up and claim how working for the man is just another way of the government oppressing you. Whatever.

I, on the other hand, like working all day for low pay. It’s hard to explain the feeling. You will know what I mean when you sit up all night watching campaigns closely, stressing yourself out over little drops in the EPC. It’s like paranoia gone mad when it comes to working with CPA networks. Any little drop in revenue ofcourse can’t be explained by just pure luck of visitors, it just HAS to be the network screwing you and stealing your leads. Well… Anyway. Sometimes you just want to escape all that and go work for someone else.

To be perfectly honest, I always go for jobs that I would have been doing the same work at home (More on that later). So for example if you were a web designer, and you went and got a job as a creative director at a local company. You are doing basically what you would have been doing normally, only all the pressure is off you. If you stuff up, then sure you may get a slap on the wrists, but you won’t be seeing it in your back pocket.

Anyway, I’ve secured a job as a “Web Developer”. Actually it’s a “Junior Web Developer”. I hate being called a “Junior”, but gotta start somewhere. I wouldn’t say that I have a junior set of skills when it comes to C# development. But unfortunately I’ve been away from the working world for too long so have to start again at the bottom – again. It also comes down to developing too much automation tools. I mean it develops my logic skill set way beyond a regular C# programmers. But then when I have to go back to basics, and develop just a simple business application that is pulling from a MSSQL database using LINQ etc, it all becomes foreign to me. I know it atleast, but it’s just been so long since I used any of that stuff.

The job itself is working for a small Web Development company that builds fairly large business websites. I don’t like giving out exact names, but they developed the website for one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world, and plenty of well known brand websites. I will be just developing the backend for them, so far what I’ve heard about the job is that they use some sort of CMS behind their websites. Kinda like Joomla, but for ASP, and then we build the website on top of that. In a way I think it’s cheating starting off with a CMS, but it becomes alot easier when the client can just modify the website themselves.

I haven’t quite started yet, I will be doing so after Easter. But I don’t intend to let this blog just go. Infact I think with a salary behind me, and something to fall back on. I’m going to be much more likely to take risks, and be almost more entrepreneurial. I think that was one of my biggest problems this year, Is that everything I do has to make money. I wasn’t able to create the next Twitter Ad Network, or a Digg clone, because in the short term they aren’t bringing home any money. But now, I have all the time in the world!