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

[Lynn Nichols]

Thanks, Andy, for some good points! My 20+ years of marketing management 
experience in the corporate world and 10 years of experience running my 
own web design shop does account for something -- it made me the design 
professional I am today.

Now if I could just make some of my clients understand that I'm 
suggesting I do their web maintenance because I'm an experienced 
designer and they're farmers (or whatever) with experience in a totally 
different field. Today everybody wants to self maintain their sites, 
regardless of whether or not they have the talent, patience or technical 
ability for it. Yet I don't try to be a farmer... Heavy sigh... ;)

Lynn

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


Andy Klapper wrote:

> Number 4 is what you get with somebody that's been around the block a few
> times.  I've never finished a project and not wished I hadn't done something
> differently.  It's just my nature, and my experience.  The thing is, I'll
> work that knowledge into the next project or some other project in the
> future, and that knowledge tends to be something that transcends the
> particular technology used on a particular project.
> 
> The type of experience is also important. Designing a system from scratch
> is worth more than being a cog in a large company building slightly similar
> widgets every year, there just isn't all that much you learn making the 5th
> widget that you didn't learn from the first four.
> 
> In reality number 3 tends to be more important for consultants than full
> time employees.  My experience is that a great engineer is a great engineer
> in any setting.  What is important is how they grasp and solve problems.
> The language and libraries can be learned, the gift of how to use them is
> just that, a gift.  Employers don't want to pay for somebody to learn a new
> technology on their dime, for a six month contractor that may make sense,
> for an employee that you hope sticks around for 3 to 30 years it's
> incredibly short sighted.