Hahahanoseriously.

iMarc went to the MITX Awards last night. It was an awesome time, despite having to sit next to Dan.

Following the show attendees were invited to an after-party at 711 Bistro & Lounge, a very cool Lounge/Sushi Bar on Boylston st.

The bar was consistently backed up, and it took about a half hour of leaning on it to get a drink, so I found myself shoulder-to-shoulder with other nerds-in-suits for the better part of the evening.

At one point I started commiserating about the queue with a guy next to me, and it evolved into one of those "I'm [name], I work for [company], and I do [work]". He was an Art Director, which involved lots of managing a team of twenty, and all the excitement involved in that. I found it pretty interesting, because here I generally work within a team of three: project manager (the insightful Dave Tufts), graphic designer (the gifted Christian Keyes) and developer (the happy-to-be-employed Patrick McPhail); our process wouldn't work with 17 other people. After all, you can only fit so much beer in the fridge.

So I grilled him a for a few minutes on his responsibilities at work, just narrowly avoiding insinuating that he delegated all of the real work to his employees while taking all the credit for himself, which I'm sure is not the case. Probably.

When he turned the tables and asked what I did, I went a little overboard and told him everything that I do:

“Oh, I'm a developer, I build websites.”

He laughed (gaily) because to him it was a meaningless answer; I mean gosh, almost everyone at the bar built websites in some capacity.

Well, I'm not a javascript interface designer, a CSS implementation specialist, a PSQL database architect or a back-end PHP programmer; I'm all those things, and so are the rest of the developers at iMarc.

We're iMarc, we build websites