Caltrops - Wall Street Kid





	[quote name="Quétinbec"]...because I'm fucking it up and need help. My Dad got me a market operator/stockbroker job with a merchant bank. I now have many, many problems and have been crying, but here is a problem you can help me with! My CV lists my most recent job as 'web designer' 2006-2007 in New Delhi, India. I took that job on the expectation I could learn enough HTML on the flight over to get by for a few weeks. I didn't care if I got fired because the pay was shit and I only took the job because all the cool people in India are working or volunteering. I managed to stay employed for two months by <i>describing</i> what I was working on to my boss and 'working from home' as much as possible. I was the first white person she'd employed so she was scared of me, which also helped me last as long as I did. After a few months when it became blindingly obvious I was useless, she didn't have the balls to fire me in person, so she just stopped paying me and didn't answer my calls. That was fine. I went travelling with a Romanian girl who'd also quit her job and who later broke my heart. Anyway, the people at my current important job are fast discovering I know fuck all about ANY financial market and are trying to get me away from money and into a web development role. This would be fine with me at least temporarily because, as it stands, I'm fucking up and freaking out, BUT... I know even less about web development (however I still have the nerve to consider it faggot's work and beneath me). At the very least I'll have to liaise with the web development guys, on Friday at the latest, and I'm sure I'm sure they'll quickly pick up on lack of knowledge and pass it on to everyone else and I'll feel like a fucking loser. SO! What I know: I did put together a web page in India but I had a hard time aligning things and I never got it hosted. I know what CSS stands for. What I'd like to know: what to avoid talking about with someone who knows things about web development, and what I won't be able to avoid talking about. What is the best thing I can spend a few hours reading so I can pretend to understand what people are saying? One word that has come up quite often is 'database'. Would your average web developer know anything about them? Can I get away with saying I don't know much about that without sounding like an amateur? I'll probably have lots of questions in the future because I also told them I can program and they're suggesting I write an extension for some scary looking financial application IN MY SPARE TIME BETWEEN CLIENTS!!! I think it's time to start hating music.[/quote]