Re: Is this off topic?

I am a Technical Instructor for a Government Contractor.  I am 40 yrs old
and been employed by this company for over 17 years.  I have a BS in
Technical Education and typically deliver traditional standup training to
our workforce of about 15k employees.  But in the past several years I have
had to evolve.  Always being a computer geek it was pretty easy for me to
get involved with the web-based training needs of the company.  Additionally
we place some of our materials out there on the company intranet.  I do
about an equal amount of free and side jobs for friends and organizations
outside of work.  I have taken my share of company computer classes :-( and
also Macromedia licensed courses as well.  I do a lot of outside learning on
my own as do most people on this forum.

I get paid the same (under the current market) if I develop intranet sites
and WBT/CBT or if I just do ordinary teaching implementation.  For the most
part, my co-workers have no clue about web-site development, CBT/WBT.  they
think it is some kind of weird thing that I do, to suck-up to management!

So in a nut-shell -  in my job the computer stuff is just a little more job
security because not too many people have the same skills.

Don


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard and Jolene Johnson" <jonric(at)tx3.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: Is this off topic?


> I am wondering just what the job market for web designers/developers is
like
> in general.  I am in a one year web design program in the Seattle area,
and
> I am hearing from students who are about to graduate that they can't find
> any job prospects, not even working for free.  Would it be too much to ask
> what types of employment some of you have, how you got there, and what
> skills you had to have to get there?  I can't see myself doing anything
> other than web work, but feel very bummed out about my future.
>
> Jolene Johnson
>
>

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