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| *Ostroff, Fair and Company>>>Technology |
If you had a choice between these two, which would you choose? |
I have four months to get more training in something so that I can move my family out of our current situation. My two choices are : Media Design Technology and Accounting. Both will get me a certificate of completion. Accounting is simply accounting. Media Design Technology includes: Illustrator, InDesign, Publisher, Pagemaker, QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Director, PHP, Premiere, After Effects, Flash, XML, VB.NET, ADO.NET, C#, CGI/PERL, Java, JSP, and ColdFusion MX. Which would you do? I want to be able to work from home for a second income because I want to move to a smaller community and not have to rely on their economy. Go with accounting. Your job choices later will be much greater and more diverse. Every company needs an accountant, even if it is only the sole proprietor doing the bookwork. I worked at a large, fortune 500 company and there were more accounting degrees than IT degrees, or information technology as they called it back then. Even tiny businesses need an accountant and you could easily buy software (Quickbooks, tax prep., etc.) to start doing side work for various people in your off time. You could work from home as a bookkeeper just as easily as a media design expert. I doubt every company needs a media design expert. But worse than that, you would have to continuously keep abreast of technology as it changes. Far more than accounting. You would be spending extra time keeping current. Go with accounting. Easier to get a job in accounting. Easier to get side jobs in your spare time. And the best of all, you could be an accountant in a company that specializes in media design. That way you would learn more about media design while having the security of the accounting position. Media Design Technology sounds and looks like a fancy name for Web developer. My advice is to research both careers and find out which one is more likely to allow you to work from home and not an office and then decide A certificate does not equal employment. There's not much you can do with a certificate when there are tons of folks out there with degrees looking for jobs. I'd go with the one you thin you'd be best at. It's possible to do web design from home .. but you'd have to be good to get jobs .. accounting I have no idea .. It is difficult to find an Accounting job from taking a few accounting courses. It is easier to find a job after taking a few media design courses. Media Design is a different story. I would not learn programming, multimedia and publications. I would pick one of these components. Multimedia would be the ideal choice, as this is the easiest to have contract jobs and work from home. Publications is useless unless you have writing skills. Programming is pointless unless you have in-depth computer and data structure knowledge. I know all those programs and languages you mentioned under Media Design Technology. I know the value and marketability of those skillsets. I would go for the Media Design Technology! I personally want to do Computer Science when I get to college! You would probably make more money that way too. It may be more challenging but I believe it will be worth it! I hope you pick the right choice. May the LORD bless you! |
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