tebop opened this issue on Jul 17, 2009 · 27 posts
wolf359 posted Mon, 20 July 2009 at 9:26 AM
"I'd have to make 38k a year to get off what I'm making in unemployment. That's sad (because it's not nearly enough), and frustrating (because all the job skills have completely changed; so you either have to have skills you don't have 'certs' for, or take less than you're making on the dole)."***
The trend I have been seeing particularly in the Visual arts/Graphic design field is to pile more and more Skill sets into one job description
without commensurate pay!!!.
I understand the need to eliminate some of the overlap between print design and web design
But now you are expected to be a PHP,Action Script,JAVA, JOOMLA, AJAX, DHTML,CSS hand coder along with
video editing and after effects in addition
to standard print Design/prepress with the Adobe CS suite and MS Office suite
All for less than 40K a year in major metropolitan areas like up here in New York and Even LA.
so even the skilled jobs that are"hiring"
often have a ridiculous list of requirements that
reads like the Closing Credits to "Lord of the "Rings".
Cheers