Hey,
I was working in a call center and luckily sat beside the marketing director of the multi million quid company I was doing telesales for.
I realise not many people get an opportunity like the one I had, but you have to make the most of what you've got. So I wrote a huge proposal for a new software system, complete with functional demo etc which would replace the ancient terminals into *cough* SCO *cough* Servers and handed everything (after applying copyright) to this marketing director guy.
Of course I never got a dime, I knew I wouldn't because no huge company is willing to give some self taught twenty year old geek a wad of cash for developing all this stuff when they can only sue him for $5 if everything goes messy.
The point is, he handed the proposal to Ford, a large insurance company and IBM - all whom I met at their request.
The result? after two weeks of work on a proposal that wouldn't bring me a singe penny directly, I now have contacts and big people interested in the stuff I do, including investors.
Things are looking up now.
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Hey, I was working in a call center and luckily sat beside the marketing director of the multi million quid company I was doing telesales for. I realise not many people get an opportunity like the one I had, but you have to make the most of what you've got. So I wrote a huge proposal for a new software system, complete with functional demo etc which would replace the ancient terminals into *cough* SCO *cough* Servers and handed everything (after applying copyright) to this marketing director guy. Of course I never got a dime, I knew I wouldn't because no huge company is willing to give some self taught twenty year old geek a wad of cash for developing all this stuff when they can only sue him for $5 if everything goes messy. The point is, he handed the proposal to Ford, a large insurance company and IBM - all whom I met at their request. The result? after two weeks of work on a proposal that wouldn't bring me a singe penny directly, I now have contacts and big people interested in the stuff I do, including investors. Things are looking up now.