It´s my whole new strategy for getting out of doing people favours. Once people find out that you know about websites, the interweb and computers then they will ring you or email you all the time asking all sorts of questions. This is ok if you don´t mind helping your mates etc, but when it gets to people you don´t know that well or friends of friends then it starts to get annoying.
The other thing is that they assume you know EVERYTHING about websites, the internet and computers and if you don´t you have to go and find out for them. SO annoying. Oh, and downloading stuff. I´ve got 4meg broadband and a bunch of PCs so the actual downloading doesn´t bother me but I´m not made of blank CDrs people!
So, new plan. I´m going to start telling people I´m a professional killer.
This way people just assume you´re joking and laugh. You then just quietly squint at them for a uncomfortable few seconds and hopefully they will never mention work again! Sorted!
I'm a web developer based in the East Midlands, UK and if I keep up the current rate, I might have developed 3 million sites by the time I retire