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1. Felt it was a calling, I am an engineer, have a local ad & print biz inherited from my dad, decided to create my own identity...

2. As I said I am an Engineer, therefore a Degree...

3. No I did not, but i am a good learner and reader...

4. 3 months after graduation, applied to several jobs...

5. I do not prefer anything, I learn what is needed...

6. I prefer not to say... but is pretty above minimum salary rates...

7. For now as a new media dev, yes...

8. I am not employed, I own my own business, i have other ventures on the side...

9. this depends on your area, niche, market share, and how innovative and unique your business is...

10. I work before alone (freelance), now I am in partnerships with others with certain abilities or expertise I may not have time to learn... I distribute my work with them...

To contact me, visit my site and use my mail form...

This may be too late, but here you go anyway.

1) When did you first realize that you wanted to be a Webmaster?

I fell into my first website. I enjoyed that a lot, and when I saw someone looking for a designer/webmaster for another site, I jumped on it.

2) What education level did you have? Tech/Vocational/Degree

I have a Computer Science Bachelor's degree.

3) Did you begin schooling with any prior knowledge?

Nope.

4) How long was it before you landed your first job?

I got my first job while still in college. Since I had some design experience and was majoring in programming, I got a paid internship doing web programming for the university's intranet.

5) What coding/scripting language do you prefer?

Currently, PHP is my favorite. I also like Perl, C# and VB.

6) What was your starting salary range?

Back in the intern days, it wasn't so great. Once I graduated, it was in the $40-45K range, and has gone up since then.

7) Do you enjoy your work environment?

Absolutely!

8) What does the typical workday involve? Do employers tolerate the use of WYSIWYG? What is expected of you?

No problems with the use of WYSIWYG. I work on several work orders a day. Most of them involve quite a bit of programming, so although I'm working on several simultaneously, it takes a couple of days to finish the average assignment.

9) What is the average salary for the field?

That varies greatly by area. I think in my area, it's about $45K. That's for those with web design and programming skills.

10) Do you work on web dev alone or in a group?

Alone, generally.

You can contact me at [email protected]

1) When did you first realize that you wanted to be a Webmaster?

I was about halfway through my undergrad degree in Urban Planning when I started to play with web design on the side, just makeing a few cheesy personal sites and things like that. When I couldn't find a co-op job in planning I applied to a position doing intranet development for the government. I got it, and it was great - it helped that my supervisors were really encouraging too. It was then that I realized web design was for me (and planning wasn't!).

2) What education level did you have? Tech/Vocational/Degree

I have a B.ES in Urban Planning (as stated - which I think was still very helpful even though I don't directly use it anymore) and a certificate in Digital Media from a local community college (that was only useful in that it helped me to get my current job. Education makes employers think you are serious).

3) Did you begin schooling with any prior knowledge?

With the digital media thing, yes. I knew more about HTML and stuff than the teacher which was extremely annoying. I think I posted a big rant here about that course once.

4) How long was it before you landed your first job?

I was working part time when I was doing the digital media thing, but I was actualy unemployed until I told my previous employers that I was taking this course. They hired me back after that and I started full time with them after I finished the program.

5) What coding/scripting language do you prefer?

I don't do programming really, although I'm convinced that PHP is the best for that I'm more of an xHTML/CSS person myself. Frustrating but rewarding.

6) What was your starting salary range?

I started at $13/hour on contract!!! Now I'm up into the 40-50K range.

7) Do you enjoy your work environment?

Now now, but I am moving to a new position where I hopefully will

What does the typical workday involve? Do employers tolerate the use of WYSIWYG? What is expected of you?

I work for a university right now and yes, they do tolerate WYSIWYG! I personally don't think there's anything inherintly wrong with a little WYSIWYG if you know what you're doing. They actually use Contribute here a lot to lock down what people can and can't do. There are way too many people editing web pages in this institution to make all of them HTML experts.

THey also have a really bad CMS here that isn't anywhere near standards compliant so I'm forced to use this really bad internal HTML editor just because I can't be bothered to do it properly when the system is going to mess it up anyway.

Positions on this sort of thing depend a lot on who you work for.

My current position is a little outside of the field of straight web development (more multimedia with a little web development thrown in), but my new job is more web design and communications.

9) What is the average salary for the field?

Go to salary.com and check - its' hard to say. It depends on what exactly you want to do (programmers make more), what your training is, and where you live.

10) Do you work on web dev alone or in a group?

I think it's impossible not to work in a group to some extent. You will always have to liaise with other people you are working with, to get specifications for a project, talk to clients about what they need etc. etc. The actual work is usually done in isolation but there are sometimes projects that require more teamwork. For any career it is very important to have good communication skills. I think this is something that employers are paritcularly looking for with programmers and techie types because historically a lot of them didn't and were hard to work with.

You can use the email button above to contact me.

Funniest line from Megan's response, especially when taken out of context.

Quote: It was then that I realized web design was for me (and planning wasn't!).

So web design involves no planning?

and on tims work involving during college years? I did work for a PC co. doing systems admin during my college years...

1) When did you first realize that you wanted to be a Webmaster?

When I made a good sum of money selling my first website

2) What education level did you have? Tech/Vocational/Degree

Almost completing a sophmore high school education

3) Did you begin schooling with any prior knowledge?

I entered high school with a middle school education

4) How long was it before you landed your first job?

I was probably in my 3rd year of web design before finally getting a client

5) What coding/scripting language do you prefer?

HTML and CSS because it's all I know thoroughly enough to use

6) What was your starting salary range?

Not enought Minimum wage - $7.35

7) Do you enjoy your work environment?

Working at home is nice but I do enjoy working in most clients' offices

What does the typical workday involve? Do employers tolerate the use of WYSIWYG? What is expected of you?

Coding, and calling other programmers in different states and countries if I don't know how to do it. Yes they do tolerate WYSIWYG. I am expected to get the job done no matter what it takes.

9) What is the average salary for the field?

salary.com, check it out

10) Do you work on web dev alone or in a group?

I work in a group but the "group" is all over the world.

Hope that helps

Thanks guys SO much for the help. The assignment got pushed back an entire week. I really lucked out. Maybe I will luck out some more and make the next Google. (Sarcasm) Thanks!!!