After having countless conversations about my “previous life” as a sales rep, I figured it was time to ask everyone else in the SEO community about what they did before they stumbled upon search engine optimization.
So what did you do in your previous life? Let us know by either posting a comment, emailing at hguzman@zetainteractive.com, or even you can reach me via twitter at hugoguzman11.
We’ll post the results in list form:
Hugo Guzman (aka hugoguzman aka hugoguzman11) was a sales rep
Glenn Allsopp (aka “Viper Chill“) was a paper boy and worked for TK Maxx
Lisa Young (aka “naturalwoman” aka “jedimom“) was a journalist
Valarie Bastek (aka “Val”) was a Membership Services Coordinator for a Cable Association
Chris Kieff (aka “ckieff”) was an electronic warfare tech on a fast attack nuclear submarine (wow!)
Shawn Walsh (aka “sodapopseo”) was a front end web developer, print designer and small business owner
Jim Parker (aka “plane_crazy”) was a sales guy and even longer ago attended the US Air Force Academy
Bob Generale (aka “The General”) Marketing Manager for an Online based Newswire
Steve Curtin designed, marketed and sold parallel digital signal processing systems with cool names like Hydra and Hammerhead
Gennady Lager (aka “SendTraffic”) was a mover, an entrepreneur, a cab driver, and worked for MSN
Bob Gladstein (aka “qwerty”) was a programmer, tester, network admin and webmaster for a small software company, and before that spent 12 years as the managing director of the cruddiest little movie theatre in all of Boston
Nick James (aka “swags2804″) was a toolmaker (press tools)
Claye Stokes was a web and graphic designer (mainly web)
Mike Tekula was commercial fisherman, construction worker, web designer / programmer, and fiction writer
Ted Ulle (aka “Tedster”) was a turn-around specialist and operations manager at several retail companies
Aaron Wall (aka “seobook”) was a paper boy, dishwasher, corn de-tasiler, nuclear reactor operator, and inventory manager
Giovanna Wall was a high-tech offline marketer and an engineer who created things like motors and golf clubs
seobro worked as a programmer at a video game company
Michael Stubblefield worked as an A/V technician and tour manager for promotional tours, mobile marketing, sports events, etc
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(aka ckieff) was an electronic warfare tech on a fast attack nuclear submarine.
Shawn Walsh (aka “sodapopseo”)was a front-end web developer, print designer and small business owner
Jim Parker (aka “plane_crazy) was a sales guy and even longer ago attended the US Air Force Academy.
haha, theres no tk maxx in south africa. I’m english, just spending a year here
@Glen – Doh! I’ll fix that ASAP. Thanks for the heads up.
Bob Gladstein (aka qwerty) was a programmer, tester, network admin and webmaster for a small software company, and before that spent 12 years as the managing director of the cruddiest little movie theatre in all of Boston.
(swags2804) was a toolmaker (press tools).
Thanks for chiming in guys, and keep ‘em coming!
Claye Stokes was a web and graphic designer (mainly web).
commercial fisherman, construction worker, web designer / programmer, fiction writer
Tedster (Ted Ulle) was a turn-around specialist and operations manager at several retail companies
Thanks for chiming in, fellas!
I worked as an A/V technician and tour manager for promotional tours, mobile marketing, sports events, etc.
I was a web development manager. Saw a need and filled it.