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Am I being baited?
Some people write things just to get rark people up and get hits. Usually I can spot it a mile off, but this time I’m not so sure.
On Design View, Andy Rutledge has an article titled The Employable Web Designer. Most of it is pretty reasonable, but he says some things towards the bottom that irked me a bit.
It is this paragraph in particular that annoys me:
“As an aside, you may find that there are plenty of job listings where the job requirements are described as, “must be expert with Photoshop and Illustrator…” or something long those lines. Ignore those job listings; they’re placed by inept and sick companies looking for decorators, not designers. Take a job with a company asking for a Photoshop expert and I promise you’ll never be allowed to engage in design.”
As someone who does know Photoshop pretty well, and is pretty sure that all the jobs he has done required Photoshop skills – and were advertised as such – and none of those companies have been “inept” or “sick”, this just grates on me. Perhaps I’m being a bit precious. Perhaps I don’t like being told that my skills are not required, or that I’m doing decorating, not designing.
I also don’t like this remark: “Anyone can learn to use Fireworks or Dreamweaver in an hour or less”. Maybe there’s learning to use, and then there’s being really good at using. I notice he didn’t mention Photoshop as something that “anyone can learn… in an hour or less”.
So, he got my back up, he baited me good and proper. The question is, was it intentional and planned, or is he just a blogger whom I disagree with on occasion?