I am actually a sales person by profession but have always had strong interest in IT, designed websites through HTML (In notepad) from the age of 11 just for fun.
I have never really considered web design a full time career and have also learnt the basics of JAVA, PHP, C++ and VB.
Now I am no skilled coder, or designer of websites for that matter, because I have never dedicated my self to doing it for a job, so I thought to my self, wouldn't I love to be paid for my hobby.
And,
After some research I was really disheartend by the earning potential, sales offers me anythin from 20K basic to 200K with commissions for the type of sales I am skilled at (not that I earn anything near that, well not yet anyway, maybe one day *keep dreaming*)
Basically, my current earnings are more than reasonable, but sales is sales, it's exciting getting people to take on your equipment and great fun, but not my true passion in life.
So, am I been misled by the search engines out there, is there a profitable market for coding?
I was recently considering getting some official qualifications for the CV, but now it looks like it may not be worth while.
It looks as if plumber, or electrician earns more money, I would hardly consider that a more professional career..
These are just personal thoughts, and curious issues on my mind, no intending to hurt any one if i come across harsh
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I am actually a sales person by profession but have always had strong interest in IT, designed websites through HTML (In notepad) from the age of 11 just for fun.
I have never really considered web design a full time career and have also learnt the basics of JAVA, PHP, C++ and VB.
Now I am no skilled coder, or designer of websites for that matter, because I have never dedicated my self to doing it for a job, so I thought to my self, wouldn't I love to be paid for my hobby.
And,
After some research I was really disheartend by the earning potential, sales offers me anythin from 20K basic to 200K with commissions for the type of sales I am skilled at (not that I earn anything near that, well not yet anyway, maybe one day *keep dreaming*)
Basically, my current earnings are more than reasonable, but sales is sales, it's exciting getting people to take on your equipment and great fun, but not my true passion in life.
So, am I been misled by the search engines out there, is there a profitable market for coding?
I was recently considering getting some official qualifications for the CV, but now it looks like it may not be worth while.
It looks as if plumber, or electrician earns more money, I would hardly consider that a more professional career..
These are just personal thoughts, and curious issues on my mind, no intending to hurt any one if i come across harsh
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