The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, or the other side of the coffee counter. Maclaren "Mac" Gibson worked for years as a barista, or coffee server, at Starbucks. While her job might have seemed fun to the casual coffee consumer, she was always wishing she could be doing the jobs of some of her customers.
"I made coffee for a lot of high tech customers. I'd eavesdrop on their conversations," says Mac laughing. "I wanted to be that person who knew all the web lingo, not the person serving coffee to them."
At 25 years old, Mac had bills to pay and a lifestyle to support. She
loved playing online games and had some computer experience. With her
sights set on computer game design and web design, she started with
a few evening computer programming classes and her plans blossomed from
there.
Now Mac is making part-time money designing web pages for small businesses while she finishes her computer graphics courses.
"I look at web design and all I see is wide-opportunity," says Mac smiling. "I can choose what I want to do now - web pages, online games. I can even go into web-based training. I finally have a career that's big enough for me to keep growing."
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