Re: Grrr!! Do-it-yourselfers!

Good point.  I find myself in the same situation actually, since my eduction
is video and sound.  But whatever your sites are - ugly or beautiful - it's
a professional job as soon as it's your daytime primary job which you make
money with.  If in a year time I'd get fed up with it and start video again,
but keeping webdesign as an after-hours job, I'd no longer say I do
webdesign professionally, though I might do a better job than some others.
Doing something professionally doesn't always mean doing it good.  There's
always people that are bad at what they do, and always people that do it as
a hobby and really rock at it.

- Kayjey -



----- Original Message -----
From: Jami Moore <jami(at)jamisniche.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: Grrr!! Do-it-yourselfers!


> Mike, I'm sorry to hear that you have an insensitive client. Maybe after
> this experience he will realize and be a little more conscious of his
> actions.
>
> All of this has sparked my interest.
>
> Someone please define a "do-it-yourselfer" as compared to a
"professional."
> If I had to define these, I would say that I myself am a
"do-it-yourselfer"
> who researched and spent years working on attaining knowledge that no one
> else would give me. A professional.... someone who has studied in school,
> spent years working in a firm/with others, and has so much knowledge in
> their brain they need to hire an assistant to get relief.
>
> I am not saying this sarcastically. Its just that I have been working hard
> for several years to achieve the little bit of knowledge that I do have,
and
> no one has ever offered to help me learn the things I need to except the
one
> client that I do have.
>
> So I guess my question would be: When do you consider yourself a
> professional instead of a do-it-yourselfer and can actually market
yourself
> to do "professional sites" instead of "geocities put-togethers?"
>
> A somewhat frustrated Jami
>
>
> http://www.jamisniche.com/
>
>

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