A Few Hitches Along the Way

I recently quit my job at a major telecoms provider where I worked as a customer care representative (God - that sucked). I hated the job so much it's not funny. I decided to try my luck with a friend of mine. He works at a software company. The manager/owner is a really cool guy, he was the president of a local Linux User Group (LUG). So, who better to chat with than him. I went there spoke to him and showed him a couple of websites I was working on and tried valiantly to convince him to hire me as a "whatever" in his company, you see, I am desperately in need of the money. I guess he technically sort of agreed and he said he had a website he had to work on and he wanted to give it to me to have a go at reformatting the website and adding some content to the really crappy site the original developer made a mess of. So, here I am doing websites in XHTML and CSS, I get the impression this is a kind route to take for an aspiring programmer like myself. XHTML with CSS sort of teaches some "practices" that are necessary to have as a programmer, therefore that's the route I took.