Re: FN-FORUM: Mentoring (was: Programmers)

date posted 16th May 2007 13:48

I also agree you are doing very well for yourself there James, I'm 21 but I
didn't start quite as early as 16 so your self-motivation and perseverance
is remarkable, good effort. I wish I had done a post like yours now, you'll
have the offers flooding!

Although I haven't taken the developer route that it seems you have, I've
kept up with my graphic & web design but I come from an art & design
background so I've always been one for getting creative with the hands and
also such things as video & photography have been a big part of my learning
and work.

I'm very confident in my skills area but I do lack that "commercial
experience" that companies seem to be after - its almost like 'catch 22' I
have a year or so of it but that doesn't seem to be enough so I beleive I'm
in a similar position as you now, just finishing off a degree so freelance
is where I am currently at but would love of commercial post or like you
said so mentoring! Can only be good for me and my CV ;)

(quite the essay there)


Martin
www.atdc.co.uk




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From: "Peter Agambar" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Mentoring (was: Programmers)


>
> I have to agree with Ben, it is very encouraging to see this sort of
> enthusiasm and should not go unrewarded. And if your into AJAX and XML
> then
> you are definitely heading in the right direction for future development
> work.
>
> James: Send me more details off list and I may be able to help.
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> Peter
>
> James Herrington wrote:
>> I've been reading the thread with great interest and would be very
>> interested in being 'mentored'. I'm just taking my GCSE's and in about
>> a months time will have an extra long summer holiday before starting
>> sixth form. In this time i hoped to try and get started freelancing.
>
> I'd like to praise James's early start self-motivation and persistence - I
> wish I'd been half as ambitious and pro-active at 16! I'd also like to
> commend James's good standard of English spelling and grammar - not at all
> common in your average teenager. Congratulations on the early AS-Level
> result - most impressive.
>
> James, you told us in December that your skill set includes: Photoshop,
> Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML and XHTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL - is this correct?
> You also mentioned AJAX in passing and VB.NET in your most recent post;
> have
> you done anything with these technologies yet?
>
> With your early-start enthusiasm and accomplished skill set, busy members
> of
> the forum would be mad not to contact you to discuss options. I for one
> plan
> to get in touch.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ben
>
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