markentingh- Las Vegas
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Some where in Las Vegas...as a rebellious Sophomore in high school, I decided to say "screw it, those damn teachers and their outdated knowledge of useless crap is a waste of my damn time!" and stay home on my computer. Why? Because of my over-zealous curiosity for programming in VB, HTML, and javascript, designing in Photoshop, and animating in Flash. Shortly after I left school, I was hired as a web designer for a small company (Web Americom) at the age of 17, where they practically taught me everything I needed to know about Flash and ASP. A few years later and I found myself in Fort Myers, FL starting my own business (Pixel Engineering) and getting work by word of mouth. Not really what I had in mind (not really knew what I wanted either), but I did the work and moved back to Las Vegas where I am currently trying to make something out of myself. Fort Myers was a learning experience, Las Vegas will make me or break me, and I WILL make it.
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August 7th, 2007
Struggles of a freelancer
One of my biggest daily struggles has to do with "working hard to get out of work". Dear God, help me. I think of so many reasons not to do what needs to get done. I do things that look and feel productive to replace more important, stressful tasks... but they aren't paying the bills. Cleaning my house will not make my clients happy. When will this lifestyle end? When will I grow out of it? Or is it some demon buried deep inside my mind that I have to fight and kill? These are the struggles of a freelancer.
August 3rd, 2007
Camouflage Your Computer OR ELSE!
Watch out for those crazy desert people! If they see your computer they might blow it up, so keep a low profile with these state-of-the-art Camoputers!
And so it has begun
I sit here in my bedroom/office in a small two bedroom apartment in Las Vegas, NV with my two room mates, Ric Angus and Byg Byrd, listening to a few recordings they made last night while jamming on their guitars, realizing that I need to think like an entrepreneur. I've been thinking like an employee ever since I got into web development. I need to find a market I like, not just take whatever work finds me. I want to get into the music industry... I want to develop cutting edge web sites for sexy products, ideas, characters, and clubs.
I must take what I want because no one, NO ONE will just give it to me. This is what I have learned from struggling to survive on my own as a web designer for four years. Everything I've designed within these past four years has been by word of mouth. I am not happy with what I've developed, even though the sites are beautiful, the features developed within the sites are cutting edge and interactive, and the clients are happy... it's just not the kind of product I want to be developing for. I mean, c'mon, Toe Ring Lady... how exciting.....
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