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

[Hunter Golden]

Yeah Interesting thoughts....

In all honesty, the generational clash is pretty deep right now, but in web
design and creative services, I think dynamic is a substantially more
positive one. For starters, it's really hard to sell one's self as a
'seasoned pro' like you could in other fields because let's face it... web
design has only been around as a profession for the last 15-20 years, if
that. No one is REALLY a 'seasoned pro'. All relevant technology for today
has been developed within the last four years. So anyone graduating college,
from a necessary skills standpoint, will be on largely even footing with
someone who's been kicking around longer.

The web designers that recognize that are doing well and learning how to tap
into the massive creative potential of this generation. The ones that aren't
are going out of business. If you can't work with the people that are making
up the developing market majority, then you're not going to stay in
business, period. If you're not into embracing new things in this business,
then you're screwed.  

In general, I don't see this generation as being all that different from the
ones preceding them. Every generation becomes more skilled, better educated
and more efficient than the one before it. The problem with every generation
is it's emotional maturity. I mean it's not like the baby boomers are an
exception. This IS the group that thought the way to stop a war was to run
around naked, tripping out on LSD and falling down In the mud in some random
field in upstate New York. So let's not pretend they're an exception to the
rule. This generation will grow up and mature just like the one before
it.... JUST in time to complain about the next generation coming up after
them. Thus is the way of the world. 

Best,


Hunter Golden
Write Stuff Copywriting
PO Box 61072
Longmeadow, MA 01116
Phone: (860) 305-1684
Fax: (866) 644-0401
hunter at writestuffcopywriting.com
www.writestuffcopywriting.com








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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. 




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