I don't want to oversell myself, so to clarify, I've worked for 10 years as a pharmacy technician and did freelance on the side for 7 years. Businesses in Price are a hard sell on a website (they stick with more traditional marketing). So I've worked with a handful of clients, but with coal on the decline lots of people are leaving the area and businesses are closing.
My main goals are to do front- and/or back-end development with the option to move into management. I guess I should have included all that in my initial email. :) On Tue, Nov 3, 2015, 11:10 AM Chuck Crandall <[email protected]> wrote: > My 2 cents... After 7 years of freelance much of what a university has to > offer will be old news to you. Consider creating your own educational path > that builds on what you already know, rather than starting from scratch. I > would recommend specializing your training to make you more marketable in > the global workforce. I can tell you that experienced Drupal developers > are currently finding work regardless of where they live. And I imagine > the same goes for other specialized skills, like WordPress development, > Symphony, Mongo, etc. > > Not that "classical training" is a bad thing. I have a BS in computer > engineering from BYU, and that was the right choice for me. But I was > starting from ground zero, had never written a line of code in my life. > With so many options for online learning now, I wouldn't feel obligated to > drop everything and dedicate yourself to getting a degree full time. > > > > Chuck Crandall > Unicon, Inc. > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Steve Meyers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 11/03/2015 09:53 AM, Derek Caswell wrote: > > > I do agree with Andrew on a lot his points about "classically trained" > > > developers but I still think there is a lot of value in the education > > > process and the skills that it gives you in critical thinking. My > > > recommendation to most people is to get the degree but don't think that > > the > > > degree is going to get you a great high-paying job. You need to figure > > out > > > ASAP what you want to do like programming, administration, etc. and > then > > > get as much real world experience in that as you can get while getting > > the > > > degree. That experience is what is going to shape you into a valuable > > > > It's definitely best to have a "real job" while going to school. When > > hiring kids fresh out of college, I always favored the ones who had > > decent programming jobs already. There's benefit to both real world > > experience and "classical training". > > > > Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > UPHPU mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
