What is it like to have a web design job?

Do you like your Web Design job?

• I really want a career in web design...But really do not know what it entirely entails...What is a typical day? Do you work for a company, or have your own? How much do you make ...show more

• Answer:

  Ok - I have been in the industry over 20 years. Started learning how to build and repair the IBM 8088's, moved up to the new 286's, the 386's, and 486's, and saw the advent of the Pentium chips and launch of Cyrix and AMD. In 1994, I started seeing my salary of $100 an hour shrink to $20 an hour by 1998. This was due to a torrent of pc techs being pumped out be tech schools promising salaries that could not be earned anymore due to the market being flooded. It was that year I got interested in the new Internet, and started self training myself in HTML and other web technologies, since there wasn't any formal training available for it yet. I was able to make some really great hourlies again, not as high as my former tech work, but better than what present day offered at the time. Then around 2002, I started seeing the same trends happening in web design fees due to the fact high schools were now offering classes in site development and the tech schools were offering two year web development degrees. The real money now is in Network Security Administration, Software Design and Development, and Chip Engineering. To make money in web development anymore - you need to be able to cover a dozen specialities, or employ those that do and hope you can pay them enough while upping the price to be charged to the customer that allows you to make a decent profit.