Re: Getting Started

Hello Beth:

I got started working in a computer store that sold ISP service. As a
part of my job I developed a web site for the computer store and also
developed a website for the ISP for that town as well. When the computer
store went out of business, I did some work for the ISP in exchange for
some minor jobs for them. After a few months, they hired me part time. 

The reasons they gave were:

1) My personal web page, plus the page I had done for the comuputer
store had impressed them.

2) I understood the type of server they used (RedHat Linux and Apache).
In other words in addition to producing standard web pages, I had also
understood server side programming, file systems, security, permissions,
Apache web server configuration as well as JavaScript and Java.

A year later I went full time. 

I have worked for them since May of 1997, with one six month hiatus
while I was sick.

I did also pick up some odd web jobs back in 1996 early 1997.

One advantage I had was that I was in a small town of about 10,000
people. Back in 1996 and 1997 the number of people in that town who
could code a web page could be counted one or two fingers. The other
advantage was that the ISP I worked with and later for had been a
significant BBS from the late 1980's, and was the first ISP in 1994 in a
city of about 100,000.


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Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)austin.rr.com 
"You might as well fall flat on your face 
 as lean over too far backwards."         - James Thurber
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three 
  elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
     		                      - G'Kar  "Survivors"

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