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Originally Posted by mybrokengnome
I'm going to disagree with the last person. You need to decide if you're going to be a designer or a developer. Pick one, stick with it, at least till you're a "master" at it. Basically, don't decide to be a designer, learn Photoshop for a month, then decide you can be a programmer to and decide to learn PHP for a month. You're going to end up being a jack of all trades, instead of a master of anything. You might get a few jobs, but you'll never be able to charge the same price the "masters" are charging.
The people charging $65/hr are, typically, only going to be good at one or the other, not both. I know a designer who charges $65/hr because he spends his entire life doing it, went to college for it, etc. He's very good and can charge that, but when a client needs a site with a shopping cart he has no clue what to do, so he contacts developers to do it. If you decide you want to be a developer, don't waste your time on certificates. They are the most useless things in the industry (except for network people), because all anyone really cares about is have you done what they need before, how fast can you do it, and how much will you charge. Just because you're certified doesn't mean you can do anything in the real world.
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Totally agree. You can not be a developer and a designer. I took the design path, my sister took the development path. In our professional careers, we make the same amount of $. She's working as a developer though, I'm working as a project manager and I do my design stuff on the side. My team lead was a developer in previous positions
