It’s been a while since I posted any updates. I’m not going to lie I’ve been working on a few websites but I’ve also been pretty lazy over the past couple of months. About mid-October the company I was working for work had to let some of the staff go and unfortunately I was on the list. Since then I have been speaking to an old work colleague about a new start-up company and funny enough around the same time another friend I used to work with just returned to Gibraltar. He managed to get me an interview for a gambling company and I was offered a position earlier this week. Its fun working for start-up companies but job security is what I really need at the moment. It’s the first time in years I’ve actually had options and I think the best thing for me at the moment is to work for a company with security and motivate myself to work on personal projects outside work. It’s been two and half years since I worked in online gambling so I need brush up on my reading. It’s quite sad but I’ve really got in to the habit of working on my own while listening to music, it will be strange working in a big office environment again.
As you might know, I like to keep a record of what I’ve worked on over the years. So in no particular order below are some personal bits I’ve been working on:
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I’ve been a big fan of Mixed Martial Arts (mainly the UFC) for a few years now. I was also a big fan of the Pride era as well and there is a few of us that like to talk MMA when we go out. About a year ago I suggested we do a betting site with news articles. Earlier this month I finally got around to setting up the site. I’ve found two things very hard to do. The first is to compete with the other news sites and the second is to motivate myself to write the articles. There is a big difference between discussing who the better fighter over a beer to physically writing my opinion for an article especially when there is money involved. Especially when you feel like you’re talking to yourself, it’s not as fun as I thought it would be. I’m thinking of doing some video blogging against other MMA bloggers and some friends on YouTube. If and when I get round to doing it is another thing.
Well my brother came up with quite a few little bits he wanted doing. The first was creating a ring of sites, each consists of its own design, adverts and its own area of interest such as fashion, cosmetics etc. So I setup some basic sites, hosting, ads and no I don’t write the articles myself. The sites are:
www.Bellezahoy.es
www.Bolsoshoy.es
www.hogarhoy.es
www.modahoy.es
www.ropahoy.es
www.saludablehoy.es
On top of that I’ve been setting up some fliers in A3 and A5, business cards and adding some Christmas spirit to the site. Next week will be playing around with payment providers which probably won’t be fun but a good learning experience. So that’s me out for a couple of weeks and let’s see how the new job goes. CCL is plodding along; SEO is definitely not something I enjoy.
. Dublin down, London and Philippines (not Hong Kong) to go.
