About 16 months ago I was as quiet as a mouse

I don't mean literally or in a business sense where my work flow was dry, but in a sense that I was unheared of outside my internet communities.

"You see, I didn't come into this career as a pre plan via my education"

When I'm out and about people usually say, "Arron, I never knew you were a designer, what happened to the music?" Well, I still do the music. I would never stop doing that, look at my hair? The two things are meant for each other, and so my story starts. About 8 years ago I was studying for my music degree in the form of a national diploma in my local college. After finishing, I started working for a national marketing firm that claimed to be the best in it's field. Weeks later, I was announced the top employee of the company, therefore being promoted to senior dick head where I worked extremely long hours every day training guys on how to sell products while cold calling. I know many people don't like this type of work, but I've always said to myself after working 16 hour days, "It's like marnite, you either like it or you don't, but there's always the chance that you're going to want to try something else".

"I was way too creative to be told what to do"

Shortly after a few months I decided to leave and do something I thought I would never do in my life, and that was to start my own business in retail. I had the skills, I knew this because I was constantly praised by top business people. Online was my first though, I gathered all of the resources I could get for a small budget and learned how to make a simple website with site builders. Gay, I know! I used ebay as my backbone for the first few months because launching a new site without any support is very daunting. The following year, I opened a sister company that would help a hell of a lot in profit. Wholesale outsourcing was a bummer and I got scammed many times along the way. But now I had the perfect set up, two sister companies working in harmony like a brother looking after his little brother, I mean sister. Anyway, two and a half years later, I sold the businesses for a nice profit and still managed to keep the majority of royalties to this day.

So, how come you know how to make websites, graphics, and cool stuff, you say?

Well to be honest, I don't know what the hell I'm doing! I open up photoshop, as they say I should do, and I make a website in there. It takes a day, maybe a week, then I start coding it up. But, I have no idea what I'm typing, it's just that I've spent so much time reading books and looking at resources that it just all comes out. I don't even know what this symbol is called...

Today, I'd like to consider myself an entrepreneur in the creative industries, and as a freelance designer and business investor. I see more than just an idea for a business, I like to see the success of new projects from start to finish as I've done so myself. At the moment, I've been investing my time in a fashion label for a model who works for the number one high street clothing chain, along with a number of website developments as usual. In my spare time, I like to paint as I've always loved to play with different mediums. I'm also quite partial to photography. I love current affairs and news and am a keen stalker of celebrities.

For the future, I plan to spend more time developing my own products that helpother developers and freelance entrepreneurs alike. I've recently started work with an American company which excels as a great icon in their field.

On the other side of the spectrum, I plan on collaborating with established businesses within the UK, and have started moving into the possibility of some television work from a recent proposal by an affiliating fashion brand to Goks Fashion Fix that's found on channel 4 in the UK. *Excited*