Ok so I spoke with another developer from the team i’m on right now (seriously i’m loving dif - they rock). anyways so i’m talking to him, we do the normal feeling each other out, then start speaking on back in the day (5+ years ago).
Back then it seemed most flash developers, hell most web [...]
Ok so I spoke with another developer from the team i’m on right now (seriously i’m loving dif - they rock). anyways so i’m talking to him, we do the normal feeling each other out, then start speaking on back in the day (5+ years ago).
Back then it seemed most flash developers, hell most web guys in general did it as a just something to do. we stumbled into this little world and found we really liked it, quite a few ended up making it or profession, others just kept it a pass time.
But the other developer made a comment that inspired this post : back then we just did it cause it’s fun.
It’s so true, i do web (development, etc) because i love it, it’s fun. When i was at the point recently when i needed to again decide which route to take - i decided to stick with my web stuff, ok i did interview for one sys admin gig - but the company was awesome (damn logic tests).
Anyways the point is i could have done a number of things but i decided to stick with web. Why? Because i friggin love it. the same fun, joy, excitement that developed back when i was still using front page and jacking lil pimp episodes is still what i get now, what i feel now.
and now to the point, back in 2001 i interviewed at my then college for a web related position - funny thing is i got it, till they realized i had absolutely no credentials.
so after that big wreck in the spokes (it was my last ditch attempt to stay interested), i looked up the flash teacher (i was a flash fiend ), asked about his class. our convo went like this
Me : so what do you teach?
him : i teach the basic tweens, then move into actionscript
me : oh do you get into dynamic, xml etc?
him : oh no
me : oh so what do you cover in as?
him : stop, goto’s u know the basic’s
me : do you cover motion?
him : no i teach the students which sites to use when they need to find stuff like that
me: oh, well thank you for your time
I quit school the next day.
I’ve know friends who went to school for flash, or web programming to a decent about of them this is just something you do, a good job. they don’t care about experimenting, code challenges, etc. to them its a job.
i know alot of people skill learn the hard way, and fair amount of people going to school for web fields also play on there on, but theres a large group going to school and only learning a job, not a passion…
So whats the point? no clue, just wondering what i can do to help them love it - not just do it.
also i felt like ranting and this seems an appropriate topic for the day