I'm with Judith.
I started as a business student and ended up developing large scale e-commerce sites
and web-enabled business applications - go figure :o)
As far as working from home goes......
I certainly consider myself a "professional", with one slight twist. I can work from
home! What's wrong with that? Hmmmmm...I don't have to wear a tie....I don't eat
fast food for
lunch....I make my own hours.....and can be very productive in such a casual
environment. Sounds pretty horrible huh *insert a bit'o'sarcasm here* :o)
Now of course there is a taint in the industry with "my cousin Freddy is a computer
genious" - translation: "He can turn on a computer which is more than I can do".
This is where
all the $20 per page web site ads come from. Just don't go lumping all of us that
work from home "unprofessional". Heck, we're just smart :o)
My 2 cents
Enjoy the rest of the holidays all....Merry Ho Ho
Judith Taylor wrote:
> You know, not everyone can afford to take the CF Classes. Some of us
> "people who work from [their] our 'bedrooms' do so not because we really
> want to, but because circumstances have made it so we have to. I live in an
> area that is not 'overflowing' with CF opportunities....and because of
> personal involvements, I have no wish to move.
>
> I have been working with CF only since version 3.1, I have a college degree
> in fine arts and come from a non-programming background. Does this make me
> less of a professional? I have worked as a UNIX account
> assistant/consultant (a step or so below full UNIX administration - taking
> care of those problems that sys admins shouldn't need to worry about) and
> as a CF developer. All my computer skills I learned on my own...starting
> with Macintosh, working through UNIX, learning Windows 3.1, 95, 98 and NT4,
> and Linux (RedHat 6.2).
>
> Some day, I would love to be able to afford to get some 'formalized
> training' if only to have that piece of paper that "proves my worth" to
> people who, when they don't see a CIS or MIS degree listed in my resume,
> dismiss my abilities - to do or to learn.
>
> I proudly call myself a professional.
>
> Judith Taylor
> A Freelance 'bedroom' CF Developer
>
> At 12:27 PM 2000-12-27, John Wilker wrote:
> >[snip]
> >That's a very common theme, in any industry, the professional people who
> >have honed their skills taken classes and such have to contend with people
> >who work from their bedrooms and call themselves professionals, who flood
> >the market and cast a bad light on the industry as a whole.
> >
> >That being said (just a gripe I've had for a long time :-))
>
> Judith Taylor
> ICQ: 67460562
> Freelance ColdFusion Developer
>
>
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