Nathan Hannig’s Blog

My first week of working my first 40 hour week job has been finished. It is really weird waking up at 6:30a.m. after not having to do that since high school. But my job is really fun working with my friends. Lately we have been working on a new website for my university’s residence department. We are replacing a site that is about 10 years old and full of errors.

Right now I am only working on things that deal with html and css. I can’t wait to do some php and mySQL, but I know that could take a little more time too learn.

This whole week has been rough for me, but I have got some good news to offset it. The tough part are getting all of my school work done and studying for final exams that are coming up. The last 4 nights I have spent staying up late getting somethings done. This should hopefully change soon.

The good news is that I have been hired by my campus’s Web Development area for this summer and on. I have been sort of stressing on it since I was hoping to be able to make money again., since I haven’t had a job since starting college. This job also lets me stay in Whitewater for the summer at my new apartment. I just got the job by a slim margin, since they were at first not hiring for the position.

 Another cool good thing is that I won a $15 ITunes card in a raffle between all of the residence in my dorm. I finally can get some music legally.

Bryan and I recently finished a new site for a client of our’s for BreakpointDesigns.com, a web design site ran by us and a few Whitewater friends. The new site came with a new design and coding in which I played a small part in on helping Bryan.

Bryan coded the template that was made and I had a shot at coding it to try and get my HTML/CSS skill higher. It really helped me learn a lot more about CSS. We also moved a few pages of content over to the new design. I took me probably 2 hours since I am slow, but the whole project was done with in a day.

So for my helping hand and Bryan’s generosity he gave me a good amount of $25, which also included a bonus from the client for being so fast.

It is great to start making money now after being out of a real job for 3 years. I hope I can start affording things soon.