Depending on your job that can be doable or not. There are many more factors at stake other than what software you use. You have to factor in age, family situation, and so on. The older you get, the more difficult it is to get another job because your salary requirements are higher. If your expertise is obsoleted, not too many companies are going to take on an expensive veteran with less applied knowledge than a youngster at half the cost who is fresh legs in the subject.
In my case I'll probably have to go into some other discipline to abstract myself away from the problem. Not unheard of, but it's not trivial to start a new career either. Matt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Caron Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 6:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: In case you missed it.. i get that, might have missed the context which eric was response was too, but i still think its possible to build knowledge in an app and translate it and at least return to your prior rank and earnings after a bit of time. but i think i am diverging from the points trying to be made here, if autodesk could better market softimage and actually vastly improve its market share (ignoring if thats even in their interest to do) you wouldn't have to learn a new package :) perception is powerful, so if i were in the situation where i could no longer use softimage professionally i would change the way i market myself. from a purely survival perspective that is. that perspective allows me to look at the current situation and not be so upset about it. hope i am making sense s On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: It's not an issue about creating art, Steven. The issue is about retaining the rank and standard of living in the work force.
