demonhale — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:00:12 +0000

whiteRecluse wrote: Questions

1. What is your educational background?
[INDENT]A. What parts of it helped you the most and why?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]B. What parts of it helped you the least and why?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]C. What do you wish you had learned before you got your job?[/INDENT]

1. Im an Electronics Engineer, Majoring in Communication...
A. Programming in college, and the patience, to look at numbers and figuring things out...
B. Thermodynamics, since its totally unrelated...
C. Same as Tim, Business sense I guess...

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2. How did you get this job?
[INDENT]A. What it is like working here?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]B. How many hours a week do you usually work?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]C. What is your typical day like?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]D. What part of your work do you like the most and why?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]E. What part of your work do you like the least and why?[/INDENT]

2. Put up one since after a year delving into local graphic design and advertising it seems to work well so I decided to make it global, now im in partnership with some other interested parties...
A. The pleasure of working on your own business, you are your own boss...
B. Let me see, Its variable, but I usually do 40 hours a week...
C. Wake up go to check staff at the morning, drink coffee, check mails and sites, work on some stuff on the backlog, check accounts... Go around in the PM, looking on to other stuff and play b'ball later... Go home read a book and sleep... (typical)
D. When brainstorming a design that will work...
E. Talking with hard-headed customers who wouldnt even pay you that much...

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3. What do you hope to be doing in the next year? In 5 years?

3. Many more things... Im a workaholic...

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4. What advise would you give someone about to enter this business?

4. If youre heart is into it, go for it... Its tough and needs a lot of sacrifices...

timjpriebe — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:24:26 +0000

Quote: 1. What is your educational background?
[INDENT]A. What parts of it helped you the most and why?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]B. What parts of it helped you the least and why?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]C. What do you wish you had learned before you got your job?[/INDENT]

I have a bachelor's in Computer Science.
A. It helped me in that I can do entire interactive, programming intensive sites by myself. It's nice for lowering initial cost of projects that generate passive income.
B. It all helped, but I wish now that I'd taken some business courses as well.
C. More about running a business. I've been learning as I go, but it wouldn't have hurt to know more up front.

Quote: 2. How did you get this job?
[INDENT]A. What it is like working here?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]B. How many hours a week do you usually work?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]C. What is your typical day like?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]D. What part of your work do you like the most and why?[/INDENT]
[INDENT]E. What part of your work do you like the least and why?[/INDENT]

I started a business. Well, I am also currently doing web programming for the state. I actually got this specific job based on referrals from professors and based on programming work I'd done on my own.
A. I like it. I can come in early and leave early, and it leaves plenty of time for my business.
B. Counting my work for the state and my web design business, generally 60+ hours a week.
C. Work for the state in the morning, then do any meetings in the afternoon, followed by web business work and hanging with the wife and kid in the evening.
D. I like learning about tons of different businesses and how they work.
E. Enforcing the portion of contracts having to deal with money.

Quote: 3. What do you hope to be doing in the next year? In 5 years?

In the next year, I hope to have quite a bit of money saved up. I'm working towards quitting my state job. Which I hope to have done in less than 5 years now.

Quote: 4. What advise would you give someone about to enter this business?

Do as much research as you can beforehand. Use contracts. Learn about good customer service. Your attitude with clients has just as much to do with how they like your work as your actual work does.