The Business

I seldom write about JLC Web Design on this site. Really, it’s only when I am doing a write up on a client site. I never really had much to write about. I guess now that it’s starting to take off, along with the fact that (even though it’s only been a week,) I am now working a desk job as a web developer, I see things in a different light.

I have always known owning a business was right for me. Since I was about 10 I have wanted to, I just never knew in what. In high school I did some computer related work that kind of got me started, then my parish came to me for a website and I had my first web design client.

Getting started I didn’t really know too much, just the thought that ‘Wow, people will pay me money to do what I love.’ I didn’t know why other firms were charging so much when there was virtually no cost to actually develop a site. I of-course learned in time other web technologies and skills that were a little harder, and that people were willing to pay for someone with that knowledge. Now I see, as I am approaching my senior year in college, that if I do want to run my own business and support myself, I have to charge a certain amount, even if I work from home and have no employees. I have also come to learn that I might want to try to develop a sort of side project for extra income.

Throughout the summer, I am going to try to talk about some of the trials and tribulations I have experienced being a young man trying to start my web design business on the side. That is on the side of school, summer jobs, extra curriculars. Making time for clients and work while trying to learn the newest stuff, as well as learning what I have to in the class room. Learning that if I want to land a job, sometimes I have to take a hit in the price of the site to get my name out there. I hope that I can pursue this mini-series, and that people will read it and take my advice, as well as offer me some, as I am still a budding entrepreneur. Later.