About Me

My name is Byron Thurman, I am a 27 year old web developer from League City, Texas. I currently live on the beautiful 3rd coast of the United States. Currently I live a pretty normal life like most people. I go to work, come home cook, maybe play a game depending on my mood, and even occasionally watch television. My point is I’m pretty much like anyone else with a dream and the ambition to do it. If you are here on my site then you probably have a similar dream that motivates you to do something better with you’re life.

One day I plan to be a full time web publisher and entreprenuer, some people think that laziness is the motivation to make money online. If you believe that then you are simply in the wrong place my friend and have been fed mis-information. Yes, you can make a LOT of money with the right skills and some creativity and you can make almost as much money as a doctor after several years, and the advantage is that you may only be working 4 hours a day. Sounds like a great dream to me, but you will find that it is a lot of work unless you have a love for it, a passion to do it. If you have those qualities you will never have to work again because you will be doing what you love to do and that is the key to being successful in whatever you do with your life.

How did I first get into web publishing?

Well in a strange sort of way I always had an interest in it, I remember planning websites before I even knew how to build one. But that’s not unusual for me, I am interested in almost everything. I first began building websites as small projects when I was younger just because people found it impressive in those days. It’s like a dog receiving a treat when people are impressed with your work. I made a few websites about this and that, a school website, and some sites about other people or for their businesses. But I never thought about making money from it I just wanted to learn so that i could build websites for other people later after I had established my skills.

I quickly realized that my interest doesn’t lay in building websites for other people but for myself. If all I do is build other people websites then I still work for someone else and that isn’t what I choose out of my life. I want the full freedom of working for myself and all the stress that comes along with it. That is how I got into web publishing for the most part. And it was jump started by my best friend when he found an online game for sale on ebay.

After winning the option and forking over $3000 to the 13 year old who built the game. I was the proud new owner of a website that I knew absolutely nothing about. Sure I knew some html but that wasn’t what I would consider programming. And this game was written in ASP, javascript, and html. I was screwed. And I couldn’t pay the whopping (LOL) $8 an hour for Dan Breese to make all the changes that I wanted. After several months I shut down the site because I just couldn’t do it anymore. It was a valuable lesson to say the least.

Over the years I created a number of sites for other people and continued to improve my skills. I found that although I was happy with my life I wanted to make a change. I wanted to work in the industry for a .com of some sort. My primary interest at the time was webhosting. So I decided to learn from the best and applied at Host Gator and got the job.

I wanted to make that change so bad that I literally had to live homeless for a week in a tent in some nearby woods for privacy. It was a very humbling experience that put into view the lives that some of us have to face on a daily basis.

What was very interesting about this particular place is that there was another homeless person living about 200 feet away from us but basically out of view. They lived in a huge tent, with chairs, tarps laid out, solar panels, and they even had fans. It was like a homeless mansion, which also shows that life is only what you make of it.

But unfortunately it is far too hot and humid to continue living in a tent so I have since moved on from this ironic circumstance that I was faced with. But it is a constant reminder of how easily this can all be taken away.

I began working at Hostgator as a Technical Support Phones / Chat agent and have since moved on to customer retention within the company. I love what I do, and the wide variety of experience that comes from working in a company that is known globally. It has certainly expanded on my views of other cultures and how they operate.

I also do a number of freelance activities on the side, including website design and development, anything having to do with WordPress, and promotions within the Houston club scene which involves photo coverage and optional live streaming of large events from the club over the internet so that patrons that cannot otherwise come to the venue can at least get online and see what is going on.



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