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Title: no more late night posts
Post by: THX on November 22, 2005, 11:05:23 PM

hell hath frozen over & i finally got a job at a web design company.  i\'ll be on much less during weekdays so pour out a foh-ty just for me

so far it\'s a lot of busy work but it\'s slightly better than delivering pizzas :bounce:

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: Samwise on November 23, 2005, 12:09:15 AM

Woohoo, congrats you sexy bastard!

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: GmanJoe on November 23, 2005, 04:55:29 AM

Congrats. No more pizza and gay sex delivery service from THX. ;) :D

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Post by: Paul2 on November 23, 2005, 05:17:49 AM

congratulations.

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: Titan on November 23, 2005, 08:35:10 AM

Good job. Congrats.

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Post by: Evi on November 23, 2005, 11:22:26 AM

Hope the new job works out for you. :op:

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: Knotter8 on November 23, 2005, 12:30:44 PM

Congrats THX !

I\'ve got a job interview next monday.

Btw. did you get a specific job description yet ? programmer, interaction designer or template designer ?

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: fre4d4 on November 23, 2005, 01:35:04 PM

Hey thats great congrats on yer new job

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: THX on November 23, 2005, 03:09:25 PM

Thanks for the compliments all, I\'ve been looking for a job like this for literally over a year.  Been to over a dozen interviews, spent $75+ in parking garage fees in DC, prostitutes etc...

As for the actual position, I don\'t know what the title is other than "temp" :)  I\'m only working for them for a month, with a possibility for future work if they think I have a nice ass.

Right now they have like 2-3 web/print designers and I\'m the faggot who cuts up the PSDs in Photoshop and throws it into CSS/HTML/PHP/ASP (absolutely zero table design).  I have to say the designers are all women in their early to mid 20\'s and they are all sexy.  One is a really really nice Korean girl who I\'m sure you all would love to see.

And this confirms it.  I cannot view this webpage from work with the stuff I just spouted. :D

Good luck in your interview Knotter.  Consider putting your resume on Monster, I got calls from several recruiters that way.

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: fre4d4 on November 23, 2005, 04:57:16 PM

Hey even if it is a temp position put 100%into it. Let your work speak for it self

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: Living-In-Clip on November 23, 2005, 05:20:57 PM

My job was a temp position, then I got hired full time...Then promoted...Up for another one soon...Wait..bad example..I hate my job.

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: Luke on November 23, 2005, 06:19:40 PM

congrats buddy!

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Post by: Samwise on November 23, 2005, 08:13:10 PM

Come on THX, you can admit it... we all know the hot 20-something women are in fact overweight 45-year old balding guys! :D

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: videoholic on November 23, 2005, 08:22:29 PM

Are you on temp or probation?  Are you either on or off after 30?  Hate to think they want to keep you as a temp forever.

Keep track of the money you spend.  You can right off all those tolls, the mileage to your interviews, to the office supply store to buy paper, etc. etc.  End of the month you may just not make a damn thing if you play it right.

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: Knotter8 on November 24, 2005, 04:34:31 AM

As a \'temp\' ? Doing basically the \'filler\' work ?

I\'d make sure you get yourself noticed and show em what you really got. I think this is also a bit of a test to see if any new candidate is willing to do extra stuff.

Learn from the core design team and show your stuff. If then, they don\'t give you a contract after that month, you\'ll know they\'re just looking for cheap filler workers - if so, leave em.

Btw. I got a call today from another game company ; they want to meet me. I guess posting my portfolio around, and having some nice friends pays off....

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: THX on November 24, 2005, 10:24:28 AM

knotter I actually prefer doing the actual coding of a web page than working in Photoshop.  I\'m more of a technical person and sometimes the challenge to make everything look exactly like designers\' composition gets pretty fun.  In fact I worked about a half hour overtime on Tuesday to complete a project.

Not really filler work as I am replacing someone who is working on site for a client.  I also handle multimedia components of a web page, putting in Flash video, updating navigational, sfw\'s and whatnot.  If you search for web design jobs you\'ll see this position pop up more & more.  The designers make a comp, then pass it off to the \'HTML specialist\'  to be put into web form.  They also plug in the DHTML tags that the developer creates.  Streamlines the processs.

Vid- that\'s some neat info.  I need to talk to my Uncle, had no idea you can write all that off.

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: Phil on November 26, 2005, 12:00:11 AM

You know, for declaring no more late night posts, its quite unusual to see you on at 3AM!!!

liar....

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: THX on November 26, 2005, 12:07:34 AM

its turkey weekend, that\'s my xcyoos.  :shy:  besides all the cool movies on TCM come on late at night

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: Knotter8 on November 26, 2005, 07:29:30 AM

I got 2 new job interviews coming up. Both companies called me more or less spontaniously upon receival of my portfolio.

I guess spending quality time on portfolio and some industry experience makes quite some difference.

The first one\'s a CGi company looking for a \'Motion designer\' with experience in Cinema4D :D . Got that on tuesday 29th (day after that other job interview)

The second one\'s a starting games studio :rolleyes: . Yeah, i know.. i just quit a Streamline for reasons mentioned. I think it\'ll be good to meet them anyway and show what i can do.

Omg ! Busy times at the end of the year ! :bounce:

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: Titan on November 26, 2005, 10:57:32 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
My job was a temp position, then I got hired full time...Then promoted...Up for another one soon...Wait..bad example..I hate my job.

I didn\'t know there was much room for promotion as a male prostitute.

Title: no more late night posts
Post by: Phil on November 26, 2005, 11:50:28 AM

he was promoted up a street.