This is a gallery of the various sites that I worked on during my short time working for Advision E-Commerce.
It’s a job that I landed, with the role of a Freelance Front-End Developer. At the time, I thought it was what I wanted. It paid $30/hr (which is the same as I had been making at my job with the MARA group), and the freedom that freelance work alluded to appealed to me.
Unfortunately, things didn’t work out, and I believe that was for a couple of different reasons.
- I was supposed to be receiving E.I. at the time, however I made a little bit of money freelancing (not even from this job), and I made the unfortunate decision to tell the government that… Rather than being reasonable, and talking to me, instead they completely froze my account… for a period of several months. Which meant that instead of having a graceful, supported entry into the lifestyle of a freelancer, I was suddenly depending on it in order to pay rent, and this job didn’t pay enough to pay rent.
I was forced to find another freelance gig that did pay rent (Sustainergy). That worked, however that required so much of my time/energy (tight deadlines, unreasonable founder) that, when work did actually come about for this position, I wasn’t actually in a good place to deliver on it.
- This position was for Front End Development, and starting out, I wasn’t fast. Now, normally, were this a full-time job, it’s to be expected that it will take time to get up to speed. That’s a part of the process, and after a few months of consistent efforts within a stack, you’re almost guaranteed to get good… Or at least I am. When, instead, what I’m doing is putting in a few hours here and there, not even every week? It didn’t really help.
It’s not to say I couldn’t do Front-End Development, but rather, instead of whatever it is that I already knew, it required using esoteric HTML elements to style form elements, sliders, etc… Real tricky stuff. In the modern age, I’d just ask ChatGPT for help, and it’d be fine, but back then I really struggled.
I found my next job doing Full-Stack Development for Sustainergy to be much more in line with my skillset, and the hours were much closer to full-time, which I quite liked. Nonetheless, I did in fact complete work for these people, and so I hope you’ve enjoyed the aforeprovided gallery of my work here.