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What do I need to get a good job in programming?

What job skills would help advance my job possibilities and get me a job that I would like?

  • Hello Everyone, I work in an office job that takes much of my day and most of my brainpower. I get there at 9:30 AM and leave at 7:30 PM working straight through my lunch break every day. I have an AAS in Computer Animation and a Bachelors of Liberal Arts. I do freelance graphics, logo's flyers and etc. when I have time (I make the time). The thing is art is subjective and I never feel good enough or that I know enough in the area of Computer Graphics. My work every day is human resources, and administration so I need to practice graphic arts/animation every day to get better, but....what do I devote the time to as I have almost no time to devote to practice. I have already paid for a full year at an online school where I could take cheap entry level programming classes (I need to fix my online portfolio and get a friends up and running.) I could pay 200.00 and just do Gnomon animation tutorials since I really need to get better at modeling, rigging, skinning, etc. I really do want to get better at web design, multimedia,animation, CSS, HTML and Java programming. I also started studying to pass the Comptia A+ test but I burned out trying to work and finish my Bachelors at the same time. Help, I need more hours in the day, more energy to get through the day or I need to pick an area and stay with it since I have so little time. Any ideas? I also study electronics and try to build things when I can. Thanks everyone

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    It sounds like you're spreading yourself too thin. You can have success as a generalist if you work on it full-time, but there's simply not enough time in the day to maintain a full-time HR job and become great at all these things. I see two good options: 1). Focus on one specific aspect of what interests you (UX design isn't going out of style anytime soon) and use your spare time to master it. 2). Leave your day job for a career in a field that you're passionate about. Since you're just starting out, you may take a significant pay decrease, but you'll enjoy your job a lot more and probably make much more money down the line, if you keep learning.

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It sounds like you're spreading yourself too thin. You can have success as a generalist if you work on it full-time, but there's simply not enough time in the day to maintain a full-time HR job and become great at all these things. I see two good options: 1). Focus on one specific aspect of what interests you (UX design isn't going out of style anytime soon) and use your spare time to master it. 2). Leave your day job for a career in a field that you're passionate about. Since you're just starting out, you may take a significant pay decrease, but you'll enjoy your job a lot more and probably make much more money down the line, if you keep learning.

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