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How to Improve Your Work Situation

December 27th, 2007   |   Posted in Getting Started.

Do you work for a website company? If not, perhaps you should be looking for companies to work for. One of the best things you can do is to learn the practices and techniques of these companies and find ways (either for them or yourself) to make them better. Once you fully understand how to improve your quality, then you can take the leap of faith on your own.

Make sure that the company you are working for doesn’t have strict agreements for you to follow. I once was going to work for a website company that wanted me to sign a three year non-compete agreement. This agreement basically said that I would not be able to do website design or search engine optimization for anyone else but this company for the next three years. Needless to say, I didn’t get the job due to the fact that I didn’t conform. Case in point, DO NOT SETTLE!

Now just to be clear, non-compete agreements are not evil. They are a common business practice. I lucked out and found a position with a internet marketing and design firm that caters to only the hospitality industry. I gladly signed the NCA stating that I was not able to do web design, internet marketing or hosting services for the hospitality industry during my employment with this company and 18 months after. Which was fine for me.

So, you now have a full-time job in the industry. What do you do about freelancing? If you are working an eight to five job, you will find it a bit difficult to freelance on the side.

There are two solutions for this problem:

  1. Explain to your client(s) that you are working a full-time day job. By being honest upfront will save many headaches down the road.
  2. Once you establish yourself with your employer, ask them if it would be possible to only work four days of the week. This would mean that you would be putting in more hours on those four days, but it would leave an open day just for freelancing. This is the option I took and was lucky to get. By working four-ten hour shifts, I was able to leave Friday open just for my business.

In conclusion, work in the web design industry, learn practices and figure out ways to improve them, try to adjust your schedule for freelancing and be sure to build steady bridges with the companies you work for, since you will need a backup plan if your business fails.

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3 Comments to “How to Improve Your Work Situation”


  1. Status Report for Feb. 2008
    February 27th, 2008 at 10:38 pm

    [...] progress. It’s a good thing that I have a full-time job for the passive income. With my work situation getting better, I should be able to focus more time on selling [...]



  2. deb - website designer
    March 8th, 2008 at 4:07 am

    Setting up your own company needs time as well manpower. And its a long process. Keep going. Cheers



  3. Allan
    March 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    Thanks for the support Deb.


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