Jobs: the story of Sergei Dorokhov, Chief of coffee in the Ukrainian Internet
Workplaces / / December 27, 2019
What do you do in your work?
I position myself in my statuses like this: "I live on the Internet, I eat coffee beans". Turning to human language this means that I have been doing Internet marketing, and get revenue from coffee equipment sales. My wife Marina, family-run business, there is a stable growth on all fronts. Just control I have over hundreds of domains in various domain zones in the three host venues: HostPro, Mirohost and Will. The most interesting projects www.coffeecard.com.ua, www.cofevarka.com.ua, www.domkofe.kiev.ua, www.coffeepedia.ru, www.caffe.in.ua.
Of course, we are open social company, so it is very much in different ways we communicate with our Central Asia - and it is not so much the potential buyers, many coffee lovers, friends and acquaintances - using the most internet services, on ICQ, Skype and Google-veyvz to twitter, facebook, flickr, YouTube, and even ya.ru VKontakte (OMG!, - note Editor). Of all the social networks prefer to microblogging twitter, I'm a business account
How does your workplace?
Main my workplace - in the office, in a coffee house. Mac maniacs and fans himself against laptops, but most of the work I do on a stationary PC. MacBook is always there.
Whatever the philosophy into practice in the daily grind of office work pisyuk convenient as 1C-bookkeeping Visicom map there are so far only under Windows, though one-es nicks promise in a half-year full java-version (I, by the way, the test person - a great thing) - then probably buy a MacPro + Apple Cinema Display 30 "or, alternatively, - an older model iMac 27”. Creativity and personal life - clearly Apple, until I manage MacBook. 22 "more than 13", but the audio and video solutions like apple. Serious things with images do on a MacBook, but the routine cleaning of pictures easier to do on pisyuk - 22 inches is a factor, you can not argue. Breathe the dust under the table to switch the monitor on a MacBook - dismiss, I do not intend to do.
I am personally deeply on the drum platform, as with computers am friends since childhood, and I was not a boy, 38 years is not a joke. I had the good fortune to write schoolwork by BASIC in a notebook in the box and a perforated punch cards by a car the schedule, and the first personal computer was a Japanese monster with 286 processor at 127 volts and OSes MS-DOS. And I was taught not to draw with the mouse, and the pencil, mounted film and sound - blade and tape. So I do not scare any Snow Leopard, Linux and other KDE & FreeBSD.
I work with the software, and not with the OSes. And where is spinning my Photoshop - the question completely idle. Every month less nekrossplatformennogo software, and 90% of the work I'm doing at all in the browser. I think a couple of years at home I'll be relaxed and comfortable to work for TV.
My second workplace can safely assume that the whole house. The kitchen without MacBook - or foot.
Bed - a great workplace for surfing and blogging. I work at home at the table, on the floor, on the couch, and even on the balcony. Where finds inspiration in short.
The sound of writing on paper, in the room, taking in the evenings workplace Marina (yuzaya and stole her Apple Magic Mouse thoroughly clean hands). There is a photo and video, so that everything is logical. The plans - sound stopper cabinet, then get a real voice camera, but for now - a sound like in the toilet and forced each time to connect-disconnect.
What hardware are using?
Laptop: Apple MacBook 13 "/ 2,4 GHz Intel Core Duo / 2 Gb 1067 MHz DDR3 / 250 Gb the HDD
Computer: ASUS MB / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ 2,71 GHz / 4 Gb 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500 Gb HDD + LG Flatron W2241S
Wi-Fi routers: D-Link. Houses - DIR 400, at work - DIR 300.
Work is no longer satisfied, me thinks.
Disk Arrays: Home is a beautiful file server Maxtor 1Tb, enough space for your music collection, a family photo / video and backups. On the WD 2Tb, store brand book - that is, the mass of photos and videos, just a huge number. Well, one hundredth of a percent is allotted for sharing documents. Both file server have the USB-connector, through which I connect a personal hard drive WD 500Gb, it wear unsorted photos and video, disk images for installations and other dirty laundry.
Bottom line: at home, at work and any information available through the air at any time and very sekyurno. Happy as an elephant! Working MacBook hard drives and a desktop computer - it's just a big folder Temp, which I often ruthlessly formatted and defragmented.
Routers and file servers are running around the clock, powered by a bespereboynik.
Mouse using your favorite, adjust, gamer, big and heavy X7. Not because din constantly (do not play at all), but because it "on the fly" allow you to change the sensitivity button, rather than through the settings menu. In practice, an invaluable thing in the fine work on the installation of audio, photo and video.
External sound card (the same high-quality condenser microphone) - Apogge One, it usually use legendary microphone Shure SM 58 to a crane or American Audio guitar connect cables from Stagg oxygen-free copper.
Professional monitoring have not, go to the instrument. Audio path in the studio clean and straight, lot of practice - the results pleased, and throw a couple of tons of raccoons on Tannoy is not ready, and Monitors will not sound any medium, or even in the near-field acoustic unprepared room but every Hi-Fi shamelessly lying, decorating sound.
Photograph monster Canon EOS 5D Mark II with a high-aperture zoom lens Canon EF 24-70 / 2,8 L USM.
As a permanent studio light fixtures use everyday at convenient tripod, only two Cheburashka total capacity of 2 kW.
Built a universal suspension system backgrounds and reflectors.
Tripod while using a modest shaky from the previous compact tsifromylnitsy, weight suspension of approximately three kilos.
I rented only in a studio.
Mobile phones: GSM - Nokia Xpress Music, CDMA - Motorola Razr. Different colors to avoid confusion. Blue - Kyivstar, Red - Life, and so on. On reds personal telefonchik - 2 gigabytes of music that I listen through great bluetooth headset, the Motorola, has a beautiful upravlyator, ears warm in winter and provides excellent sound. These headphones use a MacBook at home - for Skype, listen to music, watch a movie. Background noise ear cups jammed nipadetstski as in professional studio models. The same supermegadivays cord connect to monitor the sound in the mix.
What software use?
Then the more the better :) Especially interesting is the operating system. How it was received - or was purchased as a set. If purchased, why is it? If you are a user of Windows, you why (non-) upgraded to Windows 7? If the Mac - something which version...
OS:
Desktop computer runs (fly) under Windows 7. 64 bits, of course. Version - limited license. That is, the box can not present - box from the system administrator, with a license for a hundred or more machines, some corporate version, so left cheaper. I switched from XP with pleasure, seven is fine and stable behaving, almost all the software works. Almost - then I had to download three or four drivers for external devices, as included were three years ago disks.
On the MacBook worth (inviolable) Leopard 10.5.8 - he was included. And endure the honest software to put the pirate - not in my rules. It seems cheap to do an update... But I understand laziness. It is satisfied in Leopard, especially since I have it well maintained and optimized, and Snow will need a long time to adjust, reinstall the software and all that. In general, 64 bits going to move - but has not yet been an occasion.
Like any devout web designer, I have a complete set of install browsers: Mozilla + IE6 on a PC, Mozilla, Crome, Opera, Safari, Netskape - on the Macbook. I use only for all Mozilla and Chrome for specific tasks SEO-monitoring, and there I lived Google, Twitter and Facebook.
Of customers - only a Skype, Adium and another for ICQ, which include, as appropriate. Furious - and it is necessary. Almost all sorts of tweeters - exclusively through a browser. The password is stored in the brains of about a hundred. More complex tasks (100 domains + 100 accounts - no joke) Moleskine + pdf + txt, eggs must be in different baskets. Information is encrypted even Moleskine - life has taught.
Messengers running almost around the clock, unplug Sunday - family day. Mail one eye in control of the clock - part of sales goes there, not going anywhere. I read and respond on a daily basis, as and when the time is usually after midnight.
Here are all sound easy I... Podcasts, music and soundtracks for video I have now mounted in the Logic Pro, known to all Garage Band - Children's stripped-down version of the most powerful professional software. I will not list the numerous plug-ins and libraries - the subject is very specific, and all the good it breaks down and is rarely used. Previously, he worked in Nuendo, Audition, Wave Lab & Sound Forge. Favorite softinkoy usability is still a creature of Germans from Steinberg: Samplitude Studio. For several reasons, I grew out of it, demolished a few years ago and now still pick something with more features, yet the final decision, softiny huge, difficult to learn. Pro Tools respect, worked - too unwieldy. Nuendo is perfect, sharpened by music. Audishn - full atststoy, uncomfortable, do not like. Logic Pro is good work in it now, but not yet enough experience acquired to have the final say. For DJing all dream poyuzat Ableton Live, but so far, alas, do not have time for play and creativity. An interesting twist to music software in the hall: SAM Broadcasting. Uniquely pleasant veschalka! In general, the software is ready for launch and technically high-grade-stream radio, but on creative reasons keep trump ace sleeve.
Video: traditionally mounted in the Adobe Premiere, but with interest I glance toward the Final Cat. I shoot a lot of video presentations of coffee equipment. Accumulating style. I plan to assemble a collection of videos in Full HD - for output to the plasma. Accumulating material for videokasty until you publish - damp and not accumulated a sufficient number of commercials for uninterrupted weekly release.
Graphics: Professional Standard Suite Adobe C4: Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, InDesign. Many plug-ins. Fotoshoplyu pictures, vayayu logotyapy in Illustrator, typeset leisurely book in Indizayne. Libraries and sinks do not use all the handles only. Font Set - twelve pieces, no more. The color scheme here is like twist-twirl on www.kuler.adobe.com, who have not tried - quickly turn the sliders!
What else? Spreadsheets - Excel, business correspondence - Word, Accounting - 1C. This is the reality... This text I typed in Pages, and typeset Edit Plus. One of the interesting softiny pol'zuyu Notik, tree notebook Russian developer analogues have not seen is not something that a poppy - even in principle. A longtime fan of Total Commander - like everyone who is originally from Norton.
6 on the Mac desktop: very convenient switch and the mouse and touchpad with gestures and keyboard shortcuts. We strongly recommend it to everybody!
Is there a place in your paper work?
Place the paper there, did not get rid of it. Bills, invoices, contracts, instructions, letters of guarantee. For this, two IFIs: Laser black and white workaholic HP LaserJet 1120n MFP and glamorous color laser Samsung CLX3175N. Scan and copy on both as necessary. Accounting and other business papers are printed on bw. In color disperse impact presentations for clients, as well as the print menu and price tags.
Two notebook, Moleskine. Large at work lies with a small drag. An indispensable thing for notes. Only on paper is a real creative and drawn scheme to achieve world domination, write poems and drawn offensive cartoons.
Once more people forget about the last time watches... Watch the time to mobile, late everywhere or wear Rolex for affectation bandit. I love watches for functionality, so - titanium case, quartz glass, water resistant to 50 meters, and at the same time - unfashionable budget Casio.
Not be kept and boast a stapler, which captures the A4 and punch that knocks half a centimeter of paper. Very convenient and reliable pieces!
Is there a dream configuration?
Here the free flight of thought about what you do not have enough for maximum productivity and most FPS games.
I think that further purchases will be either in the direction of the development of photo-video-audio-studio, it is insatiable thing, you can easily spend a million per day. Or - powerful poppies with huge monitors.
For games, watching cartoons and family photos used as a part of a wonderful Spark Philips TV 32 "+ game console / Media Sony Playstation 3 center.
Playability - unreal, it is a pity there is no time for it. And have all the cartoons and develop videos for two year old son on the same device - just a dream. Cable TV to the TV is not connected, and access to the Internet under the control of a parent. Dokupleno control to Sonya, but usually use to navigate through the cartoons game joystick - blue tooth convenient red eyes.
Movies we usually start playing with a MacBook for dinner and end up lying on the bed. I like to meditate with headphones and eyes closed under the "balloon" BG - the only podcast, I listen to the timeless pleasure, with the first issue, and so far, not missing a single programs.
Deeply convinced that "dreams configuration" - a myth, heated minded marketers. You can not have a lot of iron, is only a little money.
P.S. Stopudovo comments will be asking some coffee at my house. Proactive questions coffee Gaggia Classic, tamper and reliever Motta, French-press Bodum, tableware D'Ancap, coffee Blaser Ethiopia Sidamo.