Archive for December, 2010

I like to think of myself as “just some guy”.  I love what I do. I love sitting down in front of my computer for hours , hacking away at my keyboard and trying to solve problems. I like to break things so I can fix them. I like to take things apart and put them back together and I always have.

I’ve been freelancing for quite some time now, a few years. And before that I had freelanced for years on and off. I’ve always had a linkedin account because a few of my friends were on there and said that it would be a great place to post my info “just in case”.  I hadn’t really touched my profile in a year or so. I was bored one night and thought I’d update my info so my friends would know what was going on in my career, new projects, old projects, WordPress,  the kind of stuff that I fill my work day with. It took a little while to get it to where I liked it, but I was satisfied and left it alone for a month or 2.

I never get “inmail”, linkedin’s version of email. I forgot that I had the option to be notified at my gmail account when I get an inmail. I rarely use it to contact people, I think I’ve received 5 “inmails” total in my lifetime.  That is, until some time in October 2010. I got an inmail from a recruiter from Aol. The inmail stated that Aol was looking for a senior front end web developer to work at their Dulles, VA offices. I glanced at it and sent a mail back to get the conversation started. I really had no intention of following up with them, but thought it would be in my best interest to at least give it a shot.   I sent a simple message back.

“Thanks for linking up with me. Would you like to talk about anything specific?

Thanks for your time!

-William”

I had no idea what was coming next.