Re: FLASH: OT: Your Professional opinion...

[Neil O' Rourke]

I second that opinion. I dropped out of school at 17 and I'm climbing

the ladder much faster that people with degrees and dimplomas. I'm still

finding it hard to break into the web development scene. My main area is

graphic design and everything has been self-taught, I'm learning Flash

and Dreamweaver at the moment so I'm hoping I can branch out into some

kind of web thing without having to learn and programming languages.


Dropping out was the best thing I ever did, but I must admit, I was

lucky to get my foot in the door, once you're in though the sky is the

limit!


Wishing you the best of luck!


Neil


Al Rosetti wrote:

> 

> First Bob....

> ...in my humble opinion

> 

>        DROP OUTTA SCHOOL!!!

> 

> You probably aren't learning much, particularly compared with the investment

> in time and money you are making.  Worse yet, when you graduate you'll owe a

> whole ton-o-cash and none of your prospective employers will even care that

> you've been there!  All they want to see is a portfolio or if you have

> experience.  If you don't have any experience you get the same job you

> WOULDA got without the degree, hehe.  Sad but true.  I know this from

> personal experience but just recently one of my friends had a similar story.

> His wife graduated with a degree in art or whatever near the top of her

> class.  She's got $20,000 in student loans outstanding and the best job she

> could get was for $8 an hour working at the fox animation studio we have in

> Phoenix.  She's a grunt.  She coulda been a grunt 4 YEARS ago without a

> degree.

> 

> That's probably the best financial/career advice I could give you in the

> field of multimedia/graphic design.  If anyone has stories that contradict

> this post em now, but that's my experience.

> 

> SECOND...

> Photoshop, Flash and Freehand are my picks.  I use an old copy of Backstage

> instead of Dreamweaver, but I'd put my money on DW for production tools.  I

> don't know how important the production tool really is though.

> 

> Sincerely,

> 

> Al Rosetti

> http://www.websitepartners.com

> 

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