For the life of me,
I couldn't come up with a decent title for this article that captured the true idea of my role at ZeroMethod.
I do at least a little bit of everything. It comes with the territory of starting up a business, and is something that everyone should expect to do when they start out on their ventures. For all intents and purposes, my responsibilities cover:
- Lead visionary of company direction
- Director of internal company operations (including: legal process and financial control)
- Director of all design process
- Assistant web developer
- Assistant systems engineer
- Assistant public relations agent
Before we go any further, please understand that I am not bragging.
This article—and many more to come—is intended for the web designer or developer whom is looking to take the deep plunge and start their own business. I feel it is important to point out the above facets as an insight to those who are just beginning their ventures into the realm of freelance web design and development. Whether someone is looking to become a freelance web designer and/or developer, or they are looking to start their own web design and development company, those responsibilities above are but a glimpse of the things with which to be concerned.
What good does writing about myself do?
All too often, I have found myself talking to myself, trying to work it out inside my head what direction should be taken and how things should operate at ZeroMethod. It's not easy to always know what direction is the right one. I can research my heart out, but the research is almost never going to point me to the exact thing I am seeking, and in the end it takes some amount of intuition to settle on and move forward with anything. Unfortunately, intuition is not something that just falls into someone's lap, and there is no validation behind decisions based on intuition until some kind of substantial evidence can be observed.
As someone who has also struggled with uncertainty, I would like to share my typical day. My hope is that by writing this I will shed some light on what one individual's lifestyle is like as a web designer and developer growing their own business, so that someone out there on an adventure of their own can perhaps gain a little bit of the ever-precious validation needed to strengthen one's confidence. Personally, if I could have found articles more like the one I'm writing, I would have saved myself a lot of doubt in the beginning of my adventure. I hope you--the reader--finds this article as useful as I would have found it to be when I was starting out.
Every work day…
They always begin with me climbing out of bed, of course! The right amount of rest is crucial to any good work day. I am usually awake by 8 AM…