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- brundlefly0
Some fair points,
I don't think that design has ever really changed. I think in the 1950's if you wanted say, a sign made you could go to a professional, or you could get joe's kid to whip it up.
As people are generally cheap, joes kid got quite a few gigs, and made a little dosh on the side. Big deal. Now there is a flux of new young web/print developers out there who get work, and make small amounts of cash for themselves, but serious clients still go to serious designers for serious projects.
Nothing has really changed, I have lost a few gigs to the younger less "edumacated" kids out there, once again big deal. I am not going hungry, and occaisionally the client returns hat in hand, asking for the original quote...(yeh, good luck)
So if some kid comes in here asking questions on how to improve his skill set, or for advice, I think we should offer it to him, not chastise him, or tell him he is the problem with design today, he is not. The problem is eternal, and we are not solving it here today.
I don't think I would have even bid on that job originally posted, it's not stealing anything from us, whatsoever. Yeah he got lucky making $3000 off it, and they couldn't have afforded to go anyplace else, move on, one year $270 a month, BIG DEAL