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My personal website has single-handedly played a specific role in accelerating my career growth and income for the past 18 years. It's also served as a way to build relationships with people outside of my immediate universe, stand out compared to others like me, and act as a permanent digital home when all I love to do is rent. I first purchased kadlac.com in 2003 to have an online design portfolio when applying for my first temporary in-house design role. It was simply a portfolio, an about page, and a contact page. I got the temp job, and within two weeks I was offered a full-time position. My boss later told me that having my own website was something he rarely saw, and he loved it. And this was 20 years ago! As a self-taught designer lying to my landlord about rent checks being lost in the mail, I went from $11,000 in income to $45,000 with benefits, and it changed my life. Since then, my website has mimicked a ball of squishy playdoh, morphing from shape to shape. It's been a pers

My personal website has single-handedly played a specific role in accelerating my career growth and income for the past 18 years. It’s also served as a way to build relationships with people outside of my immediate universe, stand out compared to others like me, and act as a permanent digital home when all I love to do is rent. I first purchased kadlac.com in 2003 to have an online design portfolio when applying for my first temporary in-house design role. It was simply a portfolio, an about page, and a contact page. I got the temp job, and within two weeks I was offered a full-time position.

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