I
guess my love affair with the computer began back when I
was playing Ratrun on the old family computer. After that
I got pretty heavily into AutoCAD in High School, and went
on to study CAD and Commercial Art in college. While I was
in college I hooked up with the owner of a local restaurant
and avid inventor to work on his latest project. After working
on the project I had ideas of making riches without completing
college and so I began putting less importance on getting
good grades and more importance on taking the invention
to market. I eventually dropped out of college and the project
was put on the back burner. After I had dropped out of college
I pretty much worked factory job after factory job until
a friend moved in with me. While he was living with me he
purchased a new computer and I became reacquainted with
the computer. Much had changed in the nearly ten years I
had been away.
Time
passed.
The friend eventually left. (skipped out six months into a
cosigned year lease no less) To move in with a girl he met
online, how very cliché it was. I got a new job where
at the time there were people that I had things in common
with. The job also afforded me the cash flow to buy a new
computer of my own. After awhile at the job it began to chafe
me that I didn't want to spend my life toiling away in a factory
not being able to use my imagination except for coming up
with clever banter with my coworkers and ways to annoy my
supervisor. I saved up my money and quit my job. I moved out
of state and in with a friend of mine that was the admin of
the prominent ISP of his area and went to work learning a
few things further about computers and what I wanted to do
with them. The time I spent there was probably my version
of "finding myself" and what do you know I did!!
I found out that AutoCAD and networking were just a little
dry for me but graphic arts and web design were not.
After awhile the bank account was starting to get a little
low and I was looking for jobs on the internet for my area.
I found a very inconspicuous add for "Office Help"
in a mom and pop antiques store. Well they said office help
in the add but what they really meant was Webmaster, Graphic
Designer, Salesperson, Shipping Clerk, Photographer, Copy
editor, and what ever else I just happen to be good at and
have time to do. Well I have been there nearly a year now
(at the time this was written) and am in the place to take
on other peoples web designing / Graphic Art needs.
That
pretty much brings me to the present day and the website you
are looking at.
I
now love what I do. To the others that are still in the factory
and have a passion for doing things on the computer. (Kelly)
My time there was nice while it lasted and I hope that you
as well are able to make the leap and leave the walls of the
factory as well. As one that had been released from prison
might have once said.
"It's
much better on the outside"
Darin
Hudson
York , Nebraska
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