[Hidden-tech] Thanks to all those great Web designers - curious about the new generation/work expectations

[Lynn Nichols]

Hey Nestor - I'm a 54 year old web designer (hence a baby boomer) who is 
at the top of my game with the web and social networking (you can find 
me on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many other social sites and I 
follow lots of others  through RSS feeds with iGoogle). And my business, 
which I started in 1999, is busier than it has ever been. So please 
don't put us boomers in the same box -- not all of us are ignorant of 
the ways of younger folks (in fact, some of us are heavy into 
cross-generational collaboration). I stay current with technology and 
cultural changes to keep my business moving forward and keep me from 
becoming a "dinosaur" at the top... ;)

Lynn

-- 
Lynn A. Nichols, Starstruck Design
lynn at starstruckdesign.com
http://www.starstruckdesign.com



nestor at fuzzy-math.com wrote:
> I think the key is that the boomers got a late start:  their parents 
> were a generation that held on to leadership roles long past 'normal' 
> retirement age, and so they feel they have to do the same.  I really 
> don't think that our generation will stand for that behavior, especially 
> in a more progressive economy where lean and mean is fastly replacing 
> that good old bloated hierarchy.  There just won't be room for the 
> dinosaurs at the top when it's the folks with the short attention spans 
> and social networking abilities that will keep things moving.