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I hope the economy picks back up again . . . what do you guy's think?
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| Flem26 2001-08-19, 7:31 pm |
| Man, I hope the economy makes a come back by the time 2002 is here. I'm trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
I have a Bachelors degree in Advertising/Public Relations, almost 2 years experience in the web design field at a firm, 16 urls in my portfolio, and three certifications pending.
Do you guy's think I have a shot at making some real money? | |
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| Experience, Education and knowledge..
U make it. 
U are waiting for a chance. Good LUck | |
| hard_coder 2001-08-21, 8:19 am |
| Real money, what do you make now - monopoly money? in this inconsistent state we are in, it is a good thing to have a decent paycheck coming in to the account. of course, like ive said in a previous post, nothing is certain. hopefully, things will start leveling out and being more consistent in the next 6-12 months. Certs are good but experience is the leader. Only you can determine where you go and how you do it. Have you set any long terms goals and said this is how i am goin to acheive them? have you set short term goals and said this is how i am going to achieve them? ... dont forget knowledge is NOT power, i could know everything there is to know about something, but if i dont APPLY it, it means nothing. so applied knowledge is power. | |
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| If you cannot locate a webmaster job, I would think with your experience, you should have no trouble finding something.
Send out as many resumes as you can. I know one determined Unix administrator who sent out 2000 resumes in two weeks, way more than I would ever do!
Try freelancing. Such as, do you come across small businesses who do not have a web presence? You could get some jobs on the side designing for businesses who still have no websites, and there are still plenty of those. | |
| exar07 2001-08-21, 2:06 pm |
| I agree with Kasor!
Experience is first
Education is a close second
And Certs are last!
Good Luck! | |
| sauser 2001-08-21, 2:46 pm |
| guys with no education there will be no experience so don't put education as a second thing!! two of them are bonded together! | |
| Flem26 2001-08-22, 8:02 pm |
| I think what's more important to me is the quality of work that I'm doing. I phrased that wrong when I asked if I could make some real money. What I'd really like to do is take on some real challenges. At this point, I feel I've learned everything I'm going to learn at my present organization. I wish I could move along now, but the state of the economy as it is, things like pretty grim.
All in all, I hope the economy reestablishes itself to it's former grace. For all us techies. | |
| sauser 2001-08-22, 8:47 pm |
| At my current job I am learning new things everyday. We work a lot with Unix bases OSs.
Man there is a serious need for specialists with Unix! So study Unix everybody! | |
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| very true about the growth in unix.
the majority of web servers still run unix/linux flavor.
the whole internet architecture is based on unix. irc and newsgroups (nntp)
go for unix, install it on some old pcs at home and set up a network....best hands on...
those jobs are out there.
my current company is seeking new unix admins. | |
| Crutch 2001-08-24, 7:20 am |
| The last place I worked for had a pretty substantial marketing department. The web directors and designers worked in Marketing, not IT. I inquired about this, and the Marketing director told me that even though the web designers were working in IT, they were required to do other things than web design. Things like layout design and such. So, maybe you need to market yourself in a different direction. Go to recruiters looking for marketing people, rather than IT people. Heck, if anything, it just gives you more options.
Got no clue as far as salary is concerned, though.
Good Luck! | |
| sauser 2001-08-24, 2:49 pm |
| Unix is the greatest shit ever when you know how to use it  !!!
but when you don't it is your big enemy.
So anyways Internet was is and will be unix based untill may be micrsooft releases something very unix stable like. well the truth about windows is that on low level it is still very unix like. Especially when it gets to kernel. | |
| TW2001 2001-08-26, 6:56 am |
| ". well the truth about windows is that on low level it is still very unix like. Especially when it gets to kernel."
You really think an NT kernel is similiar to the UNIX one?
I would love to hear about the similarities.... | |
| sauser 2001-08-27, 2:54 am |
| Well to begin is that since unix and windows work on Intel processors and There is only one language that th eprocessor can talk so therefore kernels speak one same language.
Unix kernel is based on C let's say you change a driver under linux you need to recompile kernel in windows kernel is based on C as well well more exactly on visual C but still when you add a driver it does the kernel changes for you! That is te only difference. And yeah on really low level it is all ones and zeros  | |
| Joe Blacke 2001-08-27, 9:40 pm |
| Huh???
Does anyone know what he was trying to say?
Either my decoder ring is broken, or I'm just not drunk enough.
Cheers. | |
| sauser 2001-08-27, 11:12 pm |
| ok i guess that was too technical sorry!
Anyways windows has many unix ideas | |
| TW2001 2001-08-28, 6:45 am |
| I hear ya Joe
Im using the same decoder ring as you I think! | |
| sauser 2001-08-28, 12:13 pm |
| whatever you guys
read more then you will be able to understand me |
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