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i left techweb in december to pursue what looked like a promising opportunity. and to sum it all up, it sucked.

while i worked at this unnamed company, i was too busy with school to really look for another job, but after about 2.5 months, a former employer called me to ask if i could help them get back on their production schedule. i happily agreed, and worked for my old boss until april - at which point i decided to move to a company in san francisco, Credit.com. there are no investors - we actually make money! (i guess that disqualifies us from calling ourselves “web 2.0″, hehe…). the company focuses on providing information on personal finance, and selling consumer credit services to our users. i work closely with four java engineers. i am the lead front-end developer - which basically means i work closely with our lead designer regarding UI/UE issues, and i’m responsible for all the user-facing code (i have a lot of refactoring to do).

there’s a lot of awesome people here. good compensation and fringe benefits, including working from home once per week, and free massages on fridays. it’s like a 1990’s start-up in here… except that we’re actually making money. they’re sending me to the SES conference in san jose, august 22nd. i resisted at first because i feel like i have a pretty good grasp of SEO already, but hey - it’ll be a good field trip, and i admit, there’s still plenty of SEO stuff to learn…

hopefully i can detail my SEO knowledge here on my blog before i go to this conference, so that i can easily see whether or not i end up learning enough to make the conference worth its entry fee…. (so check back next week for that, as well as my notes from the conference a fortnight from now (yes bitches, ‘a fortnight’)).