Yeah, what he said. -------------------------------------------- Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Let me clarify that I'm not saying you have it easy by any means, but as > an individual you are in control of you own time, unconditionally. > You don't NEED TO drop Soft right now (unless the job market withers > instantly), you can keep doing business as usual as an individual for at > least a few months, and go in crunch time to re-educate yourself freely in > your spare time. That's by no means ideal, or even nice, but you can do it; > you can turn on a dime. > > You decide to learn rigging in Maya? You can still model in Soft, you are > a one man band pipe, that's a no brainer, and then you can double up your > rigging effort to rig the thing in Soft for your client output, and try to > replicate it in Maya at night. > > Unless you have, and need to, work for 16 hours a day you should have a > pile of free time you wouldn't have been able to monetize otherwise that > you now have to "invest", even if against your will. > > As a company it's not that simple. You don't have such a commodity as non > monetized time. Every single minute of your employees is paid for in one > way or another. Money, TIL, or if you don't offer recompense for overtime > much worse consequences. You do not have the same agility, simple as that, > and while as an individual you are fully in control of your assets and Q/C > is in built in the work itself, as a company those interim stage have > considerable added cost and require refactoring. > > Now, again, please don't think I'm downplaying this. We all have hobbies, > or families, or excees of work, or a mix of those, and it's a very, very > real cost to sacrifice any of those for the sake of re qualifying yourself. > If it's not an economic cost (no work excess you can sell), at the very > least it's a considerable emotional and intellectual effort which is very > likely to drain you, and sustained for too long will eventually affect the > money earning hours of your day, and is therefore to be managed carefully. > > The only reason I'm continuing this debate isn't for the sake of argument, > it's because I'm witnessing a lot of defeatism, and purely out of care for > my peers and a community I've been part of for my entire adult life I'd > like to see people shake free of it. > Saying that changing application will demote you to junior for a while is > non-sense. The distinction between a junior and a senior is NOT their > software dexterity, if it was we'd look for app monkeys and would never > re-train people across software. > The distinction between a junior and a senior is experience, ingenuity > matured into applicable skills, the ability to think logically and > critically under pressure, the sum of all their projects giving them vision > over the next. Nobody will take any of that away from you, don't let > anything or anybody EVER convince you that you are the software you use. It > has impact, considerable impact, but it only defines a very small part of > your overall value. >
