>> Then everyone else can have the scraps that are >> left over after developers who've taken the time >> to stretch themselves have taken all the best jobs. >> It's really that simple.
> I know plenty of people who do not comply to the *Isaac > Dealey* way of thinking, and they all have very good > jobs, oh wait, so do I, now how did that happen? You got yourselves into a vanishing niche while there was still room for new people to enter that space. As the years progress, your current niche will continue to dwindle. It will of course never completely vanish, however, if you don't stretch yourself you'll have to live with the value of your skills diminishing as the skill-sets of other more agressive developers continue to evolve. More advanced developers will bring the price of their skills down until it becomes accessible to your clients, at which point it will start to devalue your skill set. This is all very basic economics. Here's another analogy. America, the land of the free -- and here at one point in time, farming was one of those "american dreams" wherein a person could have the land and the life they wanted. Not so much anymore because large corporate agro-businesses have pretty well taken over the agricultural market. Today's farmers are doing well to be surviving, _IF_ they survive against the competition of corporate agro-business. A large number of the farmers who are still surviving have joined co-operative farming groups in order to help themselves compete in what is a vanishing niche for them. The difference with us is that every single one of us has the ability to choose to be that person who is continually becoming, by stretching ourselves to learn new things and make ourselves more valuable. So while there's very little a farmer can do about their vanishing niche, asside from stop farming, we can all choose to stay in our current field of work by adapting our niche. s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237262 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
