![]() I have the freedom to keep up with the industry. As my own boss, I can always experiment with new types of code and websites. I had to wait to be told that I was allowed to do that (if I ever got around to being allowed to code a whole website at all *cough cough*). I didn’t have the freedom to start coding responsive on my own. Everything about their workflow and methods felt dated, which is nuts in any kind of tech industry. The point is, they were lagging behind in the industry. There were a few old topics on their internal forum where they’d discussed maybe starting responsive designs soon. Every single website I’d coded that year (on my own time as a freelancer) was responsive.īut when I started my 9–5 job, they weren’t coding responsive yet. When I started this job, responsive design was already an industry standard. If I’m only interested in building entire websites, then I can reject all other requests. That means, if I’m not in the mood to do small, one-hour projects, I can turn them down. Every single working hour isn’t spent doing small tasks.įurthermore, I can pick and choose my own projects. If I’m coding an entire site, that’s only one tiny part of what I might do. Yes if I’m building an entire website, there might come a time when a client asks me to swap out one image for another. As a freelancer, I get the WHOLE project and can decline small work if it’s not something I want to do. In other words: boring tasks that were waaaay below my skill level. That meant I would NOT be building websites. But when I showed up and started my training, it became clear that they intended to put me on “maintenance work” for “at least six months”. That’s probably one of the reasons I got hired in the first place. At least, that’s what I thought I signed up for.īefore accepting this job, I had already done a lot of freelance coding work for clients and created entire websites for them. It was my job to take a PSD and turn it into a website. I can clearly see how coding their website will impact and change their whole business in a positive way. I get a chance to understand them and their businesses, and that makes me passionate about the project. I can work with clients because I love what they do. When working for myself, I have a chance to choose my own clients and get excited about THEIR businesses. I was just told what to do and when to do it. I never even got a chance to get excited about the work. I didn’t even have time to get excited about the clients I was working for, because to me they had no faces. ![]() ![]() And as someone who loves to code, it was crazy how unexcited I was about the work. But I knew immediately that this job (and the whole 9–5 lifestyle) was not for me. You might say I never even got the full 9–5 experience, and you’d probably be right. Not even a full seven days-I started on Monday and quit on Friday. That 9-5 job I’m talking about? I had it for a single week. ![]()
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