Wednesday, 12. September 2007, 15:25:50
designer, cv, job, website
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Taking a trip down memory lane so to speak to when i was looking for a job, I remember vividly how hard it was/is to get noticed or heard. Now i suppose I’m talking pre-internet days so things were handled via snail mail. If you were lucky, you maybe got invited for an interview to show your portfolio and would hope for the best. Anyway fresh out of university with nothing much to show to be honest from the ´real´ world in my portfolio, except for uni work was a hard nut to crack to be honest. Even desktop publishing was in its early days so most of my work consisted of logos and lots of sketches, paintings and technical drawings. Obviously at least now you can come away with more work to show but in most cases this is still not from the REAL world, its from classes, school, college and so on.
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Wednesday, 12. September 2007, 13:55:48
Oslo, HQ, Opera
So im now into my first few days as an
Opera employee and this has meant that im currently in the Opera HQ offices for a week getting to know both the company and the people behind the brand Opera, before i relocate back to the UK for a few months whilst my wife gives birth to our 2nd child, after which a permanent move to Oslo is on the cards.
Its been an interesting and exciting if not neccessarily productive few days so far, working along side Fredrik and Espen on the
My Opera Community site. Most of my time has been spent looking how the site is built up, how things work and setting up my lovely shiny new MAC. Unfortunately this has involved some harrassment of the technical guys here, who have all been great so far, thanks for all your help!
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Tuesday, 11. September 2007, 13:32:08
Well after 18 months of persistance and patience im finally working for a company i truly believe in! Yes i am now officially an employee of Opera Software and more importantly My Opera Community as a Web Designer. So over the coming weeks, months and beyond im sure you will see more and more of me online and hopefully we will as a team be making the My Opera Community site even better giving you even more reasons to join up!
