![]() I came in through access and filemaker started sql. I worked in their advertising department and I was a dba, so database stuff really loved it. And eventually I, I landed a job, um, I converted sort of a freelance job into an in house job at Staples headquarters in Framingham, mass. Jonathan Stark – 02:01 – So you can tell them I’m a little bit gray, you know, going back to computers in the nineties, a pre internet stuff. You’ve got a music degree and for years I did the musician thing, but always I was doing computers in the background, whether it was for postcards or for, you know, freelance gigs, doing like quark express, it know to build catalogs, paper catalog. Even when I was in a band, we needed somebody to manage the mailing lists, so I got a laptop from somebody in an access database on it and I was doing mail merges and I’d go to Kinko’s and print them out and send them actual stamps in the mail. Did that for a long time, but it always, I kept getting pulled back into computers. My Dad got a, the original IBM PC in like 81 and I started coding basic when I was, you know, really young, maybe 12, 11 or 12, 13 around there, you know, making like Ascii animation art and that sort of thing, you know, go to line 80 and then I got away from it for a long time. Jonathan Stark – 01:03 – Sure, I mean it goes way back. Jon Ash – 00:57 – So before we get started, would you mind just sort of telling us about yourself, how you got started in the industry and such? He is the author of Hourly Billing Is Nuts, the host of Ditching Hourly, and writes a daily newsletter on pricing for independent professionals. Jonathan Stark is a former software developer who is now on a mission to rid the world of hourly billing.
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