During my first job interview as a web developer, I was asked, what I thought at the time, a weird question.  “Jamie, on a scale of one to ten, what would you score yourself in regards to attention to detail?”  I said what every employer wanted to hear “eight or nine, no one is perfect”.

It was enough to get me the job.  However, as I completed task after task, it was clear that my attention to detail was more around a five or six.  This was a contract position at the time with a possible extension, well as you can guess, I didn’t get the extension.

So what’s changed today?  The obvious answer is a lot, but let’s breakdown things I now do differently to increase my attention of detail to the actual eight or nine I originally said it was. Read more »