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Once again, an article derived from a question put to me:<\/p>\n
What do you offer unemployed 75-years old geezers doing a Flash self-learning approach, to maintain my sanity knowing no company, at my age, will ever offer me gainful income employment ???<\/p>\n
Respectfully,
\nMarvin G<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nTranslation: Can old geezers make a living in web design?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Short answer: yes.<\/p>\n
… If you train properly.<\/p>\n
The best thing about the web design field is that it is very open and not hindered by regulation and formality that we see in many other professions. <\/p>\n
In fact, the professional web world is one of the few meritocracies left on this planet – imagine that, skill and talent count!<\/strong><\/p>\n
… It never fails to baffle me why economists and professional stock pickers still have jobs!? Oh yea, they don’t need to produce results!<\/p>\n
Anyway …<\/p>\n
Flash though, may not be the best route because it is a marginalized aspect of web design and I think with the added pressure from Apple and HTML5 (that supplants some important aspects of Flash) … it will fade even more so. I am NOT saying Flash will disappear, but I think it will be used that much less.<\/p>\n
So what is the solution?<\/p>\n
First thing, you may want to consider being self employed web designer<\/a>, start taking on web design jobs. It much more fun anyway! And 2nd, you need to learn the skills of a modern web designer … skills that are used everyday:<\/p>\n
– HTML
\n– CSS
\n– PHP
\n– Javascript<\/p>\nThe last two on my list may scare you (programming for web designers?<\/a>), but in fact, it is the key to you getting more jobs and earning more money than the next guy.<\/p>\n
Conclusion:<\/p>\n