Create Sean: Journey to Professional Designer

Today was a good day for networking. Last night I started searching for English speaking web designers in Seoul and found one. I sent him an email and he responded positively a couple more back and forths and it looks like we’re going to meet for coffee after his trip to the States next week. Big bonus, he only lives 4 subway stops away from me so it’s really easy to get together.

This morning I was teaching a corporate class and on my way down the elevator to go home I ran into a friend from a Korean class I took two years ago. It turns out he’s a php programmer, lives walking distance to my house and is developing an online translator for Korean to English. We had coffee and there seems to be a pretty good chance of collaboration on a project in the future - i.e. if I need custom php work he’ll do it and I might help with the design of his translator web site.

Last week I met up with a graphic designer in Seoul that I had commissioned to do artwork for a personal project. He’s also amenable to taking on photoshop work beyond my skill and lives only a couple of subway stops away. Overall this has been a good week for connections - now it’s just a matter of turning this into paid work. Need to find a client.