Sunday, March 2, 2014

SEO, Web Development and Media - A Tough Life to Manage

As human being, we have some responsibilities. The first one is that we want to earn something to eat and live. For this purpose, we become professionals and mostly we adopt those professions in which we have interest. Some people have a motive of life that they want to adopt such professions in which they can earn more and more, even if they have lake of interest. Normally a human spends his whole life to work in a single field and it is true that one field is enough for life. But some people also adopt more than one fields and try to get expertise in all these. The majority doesn't get success in all professions because atleast one field remains weak for that person. The biggest problem in adopting more than one fields is to manage these with equality. But there are some people exist in the world who got good success in all the professions which they adopted.

Like others, I also adopted more than one fields. First I want to tell you that I am a Search Engine Optimizer (SEO) and I am in this profession since 2008. I have good experience of it and since that time, I have been working from basic to research level optimization. I am also at a good position now in a reputable IT firm of the country. But in the market, I felt that SEO is not enough for me and I have to do something extra as a support to that profession. As I am an IT bug so I thought that I should go for the web development. I am already in the internet marketing field so I did diploma in PHP Web Development in 2013. I have clear concepts of computer programming that's why I understood PHP better. But it doesn't mean that I left SEO. Actually web development is always very supportive for SEO that's why learning PHP was a plus point for me as an SEO. I managed and I am still managing both successfully Alhamdolillah. I never faced any problem regarding the management of both.



The third field in which I entered is media (showbiz). Media has many other fields itself but I entered in acting. The story started in two years before when I generally went to Jaag TV (formerly called CNBC channel) for open auditions with my friends. It was a campaign of acting competition that started by popular actress and model Ayesha Omar in her morning show Yeh Waqt Hai Mera. I filled the form and gave audition. I don't know so far that it was my luck or my own talent that Alhamdolillah I was in the top ten participants who selected for grand finale. Famous director of TV dramas Haider Imam Rizvi selected me for grand finale after watching my audition. I am very excited on that time and I played the grand finale. I couldn't win but it was an honor for me that I am in the top 10 finalist of that competition. When I went to the stage to perform in front of a crowd including judges who are the popular media personalities like Shamoon Abbasi, Seema Ghazal, Kazim Pasha, Rauf Lala, etc. then I felt a lot of motivation myself as an actor. The crowd also appreciated me a lot. After that, I thought that if I have a talent of it so I should also prove myself as an actor so I entered in this field too. Now, I have successfully done modeling in "Raabta" magazine of Pakistan (February 2012 edition), acting in 2 dramas of crime reenactment and modeling in 2 songs of GEO TV (one in the title song of the program "Geo Shaan Se" and 1 in the Election Campaign 2013 song of Mr. Jeem).

So, currently I am working in 3 fields in which 1 is totally different from others two and the remaining two are almost similar, I say directly proportional to each other. Many people including my friends and fans always ask me one question, "Fahad! How do you manage?" I understand and have experienced that multi-tasking is definitely not easy. You can't work simultaneously in more than one fields. So I fix the days to manage these fields. SEO and Web Development are mostly related to each other so I can perform both at a time and I do. But I always keep my media working on Saturday and Sunday. The reason is that acting field has no long term future. In fact, I say that never make acting your profession because it is not a constant work. Today you have lots of projects but tomorrow may be you have nothing. So, I am doing acting as a hobby. I do never want to make it my profession. I am Alhamdolillah educated and I always prove myself as an IT professional. Also, in the media field especially in acting and modeling, only a few works are on merit basis. Giving bribe, "give and take" works are quite common to cross the ladders of success in showbiz. That's why I am still not working properly in media and couldn't get any big project. Yes but some fans ask me, "If you get any good project in media then what will you do and how will you manage on that time?" I say, "It depends on the condition of that time and I will think about it because I will not want to miss that chance and I will also have to manage my other tasks, so I will try to divide these tasks on daily, weekly or monthly basis (depends on the situation) or any other plan which I will make on that time." So, let's see what happens in the future.