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Posted at 10:32 AM

I'm glad this has ended up being a positive event for you. I can't help thinking you'll get a new job sooner than you wanted.

What are you looking for, anyway? Type of job? Techs used?

Posted by Shelley at 11:31 AM, October 31, 2007 [Link]

Oh, I know all those feelings. I wish I was having that rid-of-this-job feeling as well, though only if it came with a I-just-inherited-a-hundred-grand feeling as well.

All the best, though, Ralph. I think you'll be fine. You don't lose your webgeek credentials just because your job pulls you from the web for a while. If it did, my eight months working on the school's accreditation should have generated a form letter from Zeldman asking me to send my membership hCard back.

Posted by dw at 1:14 PM, October 31, 2007 [Link]

As always, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you. (Damn it's hard to type this way!)

Posted by Elaine at 3:58 PM, October 31, 2007 [Link]

hi Ralph,

Wow big changes and all the best with what you do next.

This is the second story I've heard since we started 'I work on the web' iworkontheweb.com/ where a big work change has occurred. Hopefully these moments allow us to rethink where we've been and work out if we're heading in the right direction.

Funnily, the same thing happened to me last December/ January too :)

Good luck and thanks so much for your post on the site ;)


Posted by Lisa at 7:58 PM, October 31, 2007 [Link]

Thanks, everyone.

Shelley, the resume says the last two jobs were as a Front End Web Developer, so I figure that would work nicely for the next one as well, although I'm open to other possibilities that would take advantage of my experience. I've got the usual jumble of acronyms: HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript (not an acronym, but hey), Ajax (used to be an acronym, not any more), SEO, etc.

Dylan, yeah, I hear you. I am *so* ready to win the lottery. Hundred grand wouldn't cut it, though. :-)

Elaine, you could always use your nose. Thanks.

Lisa, thanks. Seems like it worked out pretty well for you. And thanks for coming up with the idea for I work on the web in the first place. Anything that makes this place a little more human is a good thing from my perspective.

Posted by ralph at 2:17 AM, November 2, 2007 [Link]

Hi Ralph,

My son is a junior in high school and is contemplating what to study in college. He had long assumed that he would go into engineering, but is increasingly hearing that the U.S. market may be saturated with grads.

He is your typical teen into video games. But he is also quite computer savvy and is even an administor on a computer related talk forum.

So, he is considering computers/web/programming/video games as a possible alternatives to engineering. What avenues look promising today?


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