Archive for April, 2009
Walking the fence – the plight of the creative technologist
Ok Creative technologist -sounds a little pompus – looking for a pay rise are we? Its the kind of term that gives me the same sickly feeling as the 2007 gem Web 2.0 - Buzz word alert!!! Buzz word alert!!! But with every new version of industry standard design/development suites boasting new features that enhance the designer-developer workflow I am starting to feel a little nomadic, wandering aimlessly from one side of the fence to the other. I’m sitting here looking at my business card, wondering to myself why it is saying Web Developer, surely I make things look nice too, but I also can’t put Web Designer because I build stuff. Whats the problem? I want one title on my business card, 2 will look just wrong (thats the designer in me talking), am I being pedantic? I don’t think so, I believe that I should have a singular title, that truely reflects what I do. Ok, this sounds like I’m a Generalist now, but I’m not liking that at all, sounds like I’m a bit of a jack of all trades – master of none, this is probably true but not very apealing and for some reason has a negative feel about it – looking for a pay decrease now ay? So I have finally come to the decision that Creative Technologist is actually sounding good now.
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