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- That was a great post, Conny. Kind of wrung the ole heart strings. I can
- imagine MOST of us were suitably impressed by your salary. This IS a
- list of professionals as well as newbies and wanna-be's,--but I hope I may
- never be so jaded as not to appreciate what your salary means on a global
- scale.
-
- My first thought was, what's more important to you: to be perhaps a
- teeny bit overpaid for what you like, or a bit underpaid for what you
- love?
-
- As ever, it's a matter of finding the balance between our passion for
- money and our passion for art.
-
- Anyone who follows money trends knows that the rate of growth in the
- computer industry is dropping at an alarming rate. From 30% two years
- ago to less than 10% this year. There's a glut of hardware and a glut of
- experts.
-
- Investment counselors are urging folks to diversify AWAY from computers,
- which will slow the rate of growth even more. (It's like a great fat
- voluptuous whore that everyone's gotten a piece of and is now nearly sated
- with).
-
- About the only area that's still growing at its usual, frightening rate,
- is the population. And all these babies will grow up hungry for art, hungry
- for beauty. And they'll need folks to feed it to them, in ever greater
- numbers.
-
- So, if it's that vaporous myth of SECURITY we're all after, it seems
- there's more room in the future for computer artists than computer
- whizzes.
-
-