Tag Archive for 'selfemployment'

PSD to XHTML slicer for Your design. I start a Freelance work.

Published on August 29, 2009 in Blogs and Internet and Marketing. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

…. or in other words : I’ll customize Your WordPress as freelancer or outsource.

Visit http://MediaBox.lv for more information. Place where I’m starting my freelance career.

Just wanted to say, that from last Friday I’m starting to work as freelancer on customizing WordPress (WP) and WordPress MU (WPMU). Basically it means that I’ll do (almost) everything what related to work with WP:

  • WP install on server and configuration,
  • Custumize Your WordPress,
  • (X)HTML slicing work for WordPress and e-mail templates,
  • Turning WordPress into Content management system (CMS).

I decide that after 3 years of simple cutting PSD to HTML for e-mail templates (HTML slicing), I could do same with (almost) any web design – turning PSD to valid XHTML and CSS. Almost all of my friends know my passion to Internet. After some time they asked me to help with setting up or simple fix some web pages. I already found help team ( or backup), not only in Latvia, but in Lithuania too. … And already working on two projects :)

Code. Page source

Code. Page source

Until now it was just a hobby and probably will stay some time…

This was just small announcement. Let’s look how will it flow… If You are interested in cooperation, look for contacts on Umbrovskis.com. (coming soon)

PS. just to make clear – I’m not web-designer, just PSD to XHTML slicer :)

Economic crisis, work and unemployment (+video)

Published on November 30, 2008 in Marketing and Society. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

There is no such expression like “economic crisis”*

Economic crisis 2008

How we all know in there is “economic crisis”*, what makes nervous not only employers, but workers as well. If some employers just delay with salaries, then some are simple dismissed from work.

If some time ago delay could be connected with inflation (as it was explained) then now economic crisis. Somehow now situation looks oposit. If some years ago it was easy to get any job (we can do this now as well), then now we’ll need think twice before quit. For employers this mean more larger arbitrariness. Now it’s very easy to be in job-seekers row which in last months are becoming bigger.

For me it look like, that more secure feels workers, who are working in two or more places, or even are self employed. Like me.

Speaking about employment. Since mid-October I’m self-employed. So I can make out bills. :) Currently already starting to think about my own mini-company just like my sister did by establishing StudyStart.

And how sure about your future are you?

* in Latvia there is no such expressions like “economic crisis” or any crisis in general. More: Juris Kaža “Repression of Free Expression in Latvia” in his Free Speech Emergency in Latvia blog.

PS for government of Latvia: this is not about economic crisis in Latvia ;)