Just a question I'm curious to know the answer to by as many people as possible.

Now a lot of us here are web designers/developers/programmers... whatever, right? Other wise your here for some other reason... but who here actually works as one of the above mentioned titles? I'm talking getting up early, the three S' (shit, shower, shave - not necessarily in that order) and going to an office, or another place of work to get bossed around by... your boss and do all that you need to do to get paid, and be home for 6 to watch The Simpsons on channel 4 (or not, whatever). Is it a good job to have? More importantly, how did you get the job?...

I'm confident enough in myself to be able to build/code any applications that could be needed, as I have over two years of [self taught] experience under my belt. Earlier this year, while looking for work, all I did was apply for web development roles, but hardly heard anything, though a lot we're through agencies, who you can't rely on much. A lot of agencies have rang me up because they found my CV through Monster or Totaljobs... I swear, it's like listening to a broken record "Are you still currently looking for work? ... Great! well I have a client based in [Leeds] and he's looking for a PHP programmer, and from looking on your CV here, it appears that you can do that, am I right? ... Well I'll send you over a spec of the job and if you could get back in touch with me and let me know what you think and I can send of your CV to the client for you to look at" ... and yadda yadda yadda, never hear from them again.

If anyone has any stories or tips on how they first got into a job as a web programmer/developer, I'd be quite interested in reading it... just for kicks.

Thanks,
- Chris

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