Its still amazing how quickly time flies and how much can happen within that time period. Since my last blog I’ve passed my driving test, I’m now a licensed driver (yay!), talked with artists and trying to gain some direction in my life, totally changed my eating habits; I’m now a vegetarian and I’m trying to eat healthy and get fit. For two years, I only ate fish, no chicken or any type of land meat I should say but at the end of February I gave up fish as well. I never thought I would follow any type of strict diet, I still can’t believe how rarely I eat bread. I love bread.
All these little changes and achievements in my life has made feel a lot better about myself, the last few months I was very confused and angry, I even had a draft written of how much I hate being 19 years old. I felt like I was revisiting my angry 15 year old self, a terrible feeling really. Now exams are lurking just around the corner, a week from now. My final exams for first year and then I’d be moving up to second year. The title of this blog are the course codes of things I really should be studying at the moment. Its ridiculous how blurred my memories of recent events have become, its like time is moving too fast for me to save the details of my experiences.
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My ‘dream’ job came a lot earlier than I expected and very different from how I imagined it to be. I received my first paid web designing job over the weekend, on Sunday 05th February. My cousin is paying me in material goods such as technology to create a website for her guesthouse, The Sweet Life Mayaro. She also offered me to work on all the websites relating to several guesthouses, some of which have a partner. On Sunday her partner paid me for helping him work on a website. It was the first time I ever received money for helping someone design their website. I was too shocked to even experience the joy of getting cash for something I love to do and I also felt like it was undeserved. This is where my job is different from the way I imagined it. I learned two lessons over the weekend.
1. Compromise.
My client wanted me to build a website using a website builder with the domain registrar Go Daddy. I don’t like Go Daddy at all and though using a page builder means less work for me, I hate using them. They can limit a design I may want to implement. So the client and I clashed at first but then I learned that comprising with them is best even though I might not always like the results.
2. The Right Price.
I like receiving material items as payment rather than cash from my cousin. I know the things she buy benefits both her and me and helps with webdesign. Cash, however, is something I felt slightly uncomfortable receiving. When I got the money I felt like it was too much and I thought that maybe I should cut the cost. The reason being is that I didn’t do much at all, I used a page builder like my client wanted with a template. Anyone can do that. Then I thought, “Why not? I’ll be working on the site for a while, might as well use the cash as motivation.” I still don’t know the right price for using a page builder and template, at least when I do it on my own I feel better about receiving any kind of payment.
Anyhow I decided not to squander this opportunity. I have a start and now I need to build on it. The time I spent watching shows and reading fics will probably be reduced so I can focus on my job. Ha, I never thought it would’ve felt good to say that!
