Work at WebTekPro
I was hired by WebTekPro, a Houston web design company in December of 2014.
But the story of getting a job is a bit amusing.
For the past few months, I have been performing various social media tasks for a Star Trek podcast. Its name is, ‘The G and T Show’. This entails things like live tweeting the Sunday shows, preparing interesting lists and notes for Facebook, optimizing blog posts, adding appropriate annotations to YouTube, crafting pins for Pinterest and posts for Tumblr, and growing all social media presences. It’s been challenging, fun, and rewarding.
Along the way, we interview any number of Star Trek professionals, including legend Larry Nemecek. Nemecek has been interviewed several times, but this time it was in conjunction with an effort called Enterprise in Space. It was a group interview, and that included Johnny Steverson, the Chief Development Officer. Steverson was impressed with the interview and with this small podcast’s social media presence.
He asked the hosts, “Who does your social media?”
We talked less than two weeks later, and I had a job. I’m an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Specialist. I like the work.
This So-Called “Job”, Later
Sigh. I really had wanted the work at WebTekPro to work out. But such was not to be. I will not go into the details. But suffice it to say, everyone out there should protect themselves. Here it is, over 5 years since this post first went live. And the lesson remains.
For my first job via UpWork, I never received payment. And, they tried a limited form of identity theft.
So that first part? It was all eerily, achingly, familiar.
To be a worker online, sometimes that means you need to be trusting. But at the same time, you need to be cautious.
Getting everything in writing is helpful. But in this case, even that was not quite enough.