Mark Poppen

I’m a music junkie, and I can’t design without music in my ears. If it’s from my MacBook speakers, my Logitech speaker set or my epic JVC headphones, I need them to play something. Here’s a little list of tracks I like to rock out to when designing, just so you can get a drift of my music taste. In random order:

Paramore – Misery business (Listen)
Green Day – Basket case (Listen)
Weezer – Dreamin’ (Listen)
Anouk – Good God (Listen)
Prodigy – Omen (Listen)
Daughtry – Every time you turn around (Listen)
David Guetta – Gettin’ over (Listen)
Tiesto – Elements of life (Listen)
La Roux – Bulletproof (Listen)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Suck my kiss (Listen)
Rage against the machine – Bombtrack (Listen)
Tenacious D – Master Exploder (Listen)
Skunk Anansie – Charlie Big Potato (Listen)
Muse – Uprising (Listen)
Arctic monkeys – Brianstorm (Listen)

A DJ on the radio asked the traffic-jam-reader-guy what his job was before he started working for the radio. He answered he used to be in IT, which is quite a career-move if you ask me..

I thought it would be interesting to know what you guys were doing before you turned to (web) design. Me? Oh, I used to be a salesman in an electronics store. I got to play with the new iPods, cell phones, digital camera’s, laptops etc. It was a fun job, but I didn’t see a real career in it for myself. So I decided to started freelancing my web design services.

What about you? Leave a comment with your previous job.