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

[Don Lesser]

I'm finding this thread a little troubling. It's absurd to define
millennials or boomers in any blanket sense. From what I've seen, there is a
natural progression in a career: the young turk, the growing experience, the
seasoned professional, the end game. The day I, as a seasoned professional
or worse, start proclaiming that the young people have no [fill in the
blank] is the day I remember my father ragging on the Beatles or my grad
English dept ragging on me for using a mainframe text processor to write
fiction. 

I'd say being young and inexperienced no matter how professional or callow
one is is a natural stage. I knew a lot about software once. Now there are
whole areas that I have only a vague notion of. The ones I need, I learn.
The ones I can't, I find someone who does. I look for a professional and I
don't really give a fig whether he's a she, has a tattoo or an iPhone,
tweets or hasn't read something on paper in years or once saw Dion and the
Belmonts live. I really care whether the person delivers. That's not age
related or generational. That's personality. Sure a lot of young people have
terrible spelling and grammar compared with boomers--they haven't seen the
words written as much as they've heard them. My sister-in-law is blind and
she has pretty much the same problem and she's 63. But how many boomers know
Latin and Greek the way most college educated people did in the 1930's? 

Just my two cents.


Don Lesser
Pioneer Training, Inc.
139B Damon Road, Ste 2
Northampton, MA 01060
(413) 387-1040
(413) 586-0545 (fax)
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This is a really interesting thread, much to think about.

One of the challenges for us "seasoned" professionals is in how to put  
a value on our experience. My days as a whiz kid are long gone, and at  
this point there will always be people who are more state-of-the-art  
with their software than I am. But I know how to meet a deadline and  
manage a budget, I know how to make and maintain relationships, and I  
do good teamwork. I also know lots of people and give good advice. My  
experience is valuable to me too, in terms of being able to decide who  
I want to work with and knowing what I'm good at. Some things you can  
learn in school and some things you can only learn by doing them. Some  
clients know that you get what you pay for, and some don't.

It's a big world. There's room for everybody.
	Lynne


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