16 years to the day I started at Burnbank in Ipswich designing and building websites at the hight of the dot com boom, oh how things have changed.

They created a separate company called NetFXS, and I had three bosses, a graphic design one, the boss of Burnbank, and a programmer and I felt like I has idea what I was doing. In fact I did when it came to design and website building, having just graduated with a degree in graphic design in 1999. But when it came to liaising with customers, project management, writing quotes. Totally thrown in at the deep end at 23 years old.

It was the dot com boom and everyone thought the internet was the answer to everything. I knew better, I knew it was just another form of media that one could use for lots of things.

I made a few mistakes at first, and was expected to know more than I had been taught, which didn’t help.

Now 16 years later, running my own company (polyspiral.com). Nothing compares to going it alone for learning things. I think I’ve learnt more in the last 6 years than I ever did at school, college or working for someone else.

I’m proud of my achievements, still lots more to do