Boss give you time to train?
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Currently I have the support of my VPs to offer training in house as well as purchase books and tutorials. Which im extremely happy about. All is paid for by the company. Even outside classes are re-imbursed as long as the subject matter is associated to my skill-set. For in house training we use a few methods...
Gototraining for LAN training, which I teach. $150 a month let's you host 25 users at one time. It is very user friendly from a teaching/student perspective.
I'm currently working with digitaltutors to set up a great online training environment for production employees. Check out their floating seat license plan. Very affordable for a large group. They all seem to dig it. And the sales reps are super awesome and willing to help you out.
BAVC San Francisco offers epic bootcamp classes that they can customize to fit your needs. If you are a ca company with a group over 15 (all must be full time and be there for 3-6 months after the course, or they accrue the cost), it's paid for by the state. The instructors are amazing, check out who they train... Industrial light and magic, Lucas arts, adobe... I found out about these guys by asking Adobe directly who they use for training. It worked out in the end.
But,
It depends on the atmosphere at your work, and that trickles down from the owners and upper management. Most vendors burn through creatives and have massive turn over rates combined with an even greater return on investment. They will pay you a 6 figure salary w/ bonus, but you'll complete millions of dollars worth of work by years end. A 3 man team can complete a $400k project which only had a hard salary burn of 60k with some comp time, and full time doesn't pay overtime. After that agency year... you might still be married, possibly can say you didn't do drugs, and will tell your mother you're fully rested... But it's not gonna happen. Agencies aren't there to be friends with you, remember that. It's all about profit and executive bonuses. End rant.
Hope this helps.