Dave, You bring up an interesting point about the glass ceiling in the design/IxD/IA fields - you get to a point where you either start mentoring and managing and Not designing - or stay in the same position and be happy or ??? What? Start your own firm? Try and compete with some of the great firms out there like Adaptive Path? Then - you spend alot of time doing admin and marketing and not designing...
Any one else encounter the glass ceiling? What did you do? will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.281.1281 On Dec 28, 2007, at 11:38 AM, dave malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graduate education is really such a personal decision. I think Dan and > Eva outlined all the great reasons there can be for doing it. Then > there is just taking that time to explore things for yourself. Doing > a thesis at a program like ITP or an ID masters can be quite a > cathartic and well self fulfilling task that ends up nurturing your > soul. > > I have struggled for years with the "to go or not to go" mostly b/c > I've followed the careers of people like Dan with an air of jealous. > > To me I've always had to face the cost:benefit:ego fulfillment > ratios with a lot of due diligence. Now that I have a family it is > even more difficult, though I feel the pull towards post-graduate > work, as I balance my career between worker bee and thought > leader/manager. > > I don't think a grad degree is necessary, but it definitely will > have benefits for those who can take advantage of them and lateral > benefits are pretty powerful right now as design careers really have > a pretty thick glass ceiling. I mean there are only so many Ive, > Behars, etc. out there. And well NONE in interaction. ;) > > -- dave > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23918 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
