A New Villager
Well, my attempt at full time freelancing has failed. It turns out you need a cushion of money to sit on while you drum up business and get things rolling. I'd planned for that somewhat but I hadn't planned on Christine wanting to go fully furnish our place immediately or that one of my larger jobs would get held up for so long. So I've been hired at a place called New Village Media. They do web development for all kinds of different sites.
Really it's not so bad. It's nice to have a dependable income and not have to worry about all the taxes, even though I'll have to worry about that anyway for the freelance work I've already done. I'm also getting to see what it's like to work as a team on a site. I've already learned how to work with SVN, which is this code repository software that lets multiple people work on the same files and then merges them together.
They actually hired me to do design work with some CSS. I don't think they understand that I know a lot more than that but I think they're figuring it out pretty quick. It's been a little weird being thrown into the middle of one of their big projects but I've dealt with it gracefully and hopefully impressed them with how quickly I've come up to speed on everything.
Another aspect of working for someone is that I get some actual human contact. Christine is gone most of the day in law school now so it would be pretty lonely around the house. The people at New Village are nice and I feel really welcome there. Of course I spend most of my time zoned in on the computer there's always intermittent breaks to discuss something or another. It keeps life interesting.
I'll still be posting about web development issues. They may even be more interesting now. I'll probably be running into different dilemmas with more involved solutions. Stay tuned.