[Sigia-l] Career Questions

[Dan Linsky]

Programmers are a dime a dozen.  Architects are hard to find - be it
systems architecture or information architecture.  The IA job market is
really taking off now.  The once unsophisticated web audience has
matured and they know what to look for.  Companies want to make sure
they get it.

I work in interactive advertising, architecting anything from a
small-scale promotion to a large scale corporate website.  I hold an MA
in advertising and BAs in visual media, multimedia and information
systems.  I used to be a professor at 3 universities.  I was also a
victim of the dot.com crash and went back to school.  What I learned is
that I should have kept working.

School can prepare you for a job, but it wont teach you everything you
need to know.  Get back in, start slow, move up fast.

- Dan Linsky


-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of C Wylie
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 9:27 AM
To: Sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Career Questions

Hi -

I  earned an MA in Digital Media Studies from the
University of Denver over four years ago. It  mostly
seemed focused on theory and playing around with
software rather than actual real world application. I
was hired from my internshiip as a multimedia
developer for a small marketing firm. When the dot.com
crash started to happen and the economy went downhill,
I was the first to be laid off. I then was in a bad
car wreck that rendered me pretty useless in the job
world. 

Now I am trying to see if there is any way I can make
use of my old degree. I will have to spend some time
getting the skills back that I either lost due to
injury and illness or was never taught in the first
place by my grad program. 

I am not sure anymore if becoming a web or media
specialist focused on design technology is a stable
career field anymore. I just keep hearing that if you
aren't a web programmer, jobs can be scarce. 

I have been looking into the IAKM graduate program at
Kent State Univeristy. It seems very concentrated and
well organzied as far as course content and rigorous
enough as far as theory and practical application. 

However, I am afraid of getting myself in more debt to
upgrade my skills. 

What I would like to know is if there are a lot of
opportunities out there for IA's and others related to
the field. Is it possible to try and learn some of
this on one's own or just take a couple of glasses. It
would be nice if I could get some exposure and
experience in this field without having to go back for
a full degree program. 

Thanks for any advice.

Catherine 




		
__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more.
http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
------------
When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible.
*Plain text, please; NO Attachments

Searchable list archive:   http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/
________________________________________
Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: Sigia-l at asis.org
Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l