A tangled web

[j4]

They're currently recruiting for the position of Junior Web Developer (or "Junior Wed Developer" if you believe their website -- <giggle>) at the Cambridge Evening News. They say they'd like somebody with some experience but they're willing to train the right candidate. There's no indication of the sort of salary they'd be offering, though, and other jobs I've seen at the CEN have been staggeringly badly paid. Anybody think it's worth me applying for it?

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[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

In principle, yes. In practice, I have to confess that I have concerns about whether it would make you happy if you were to get the job. If the job would seem to involve the less desirable parts of your current work, but only more so, I have concerns that it might end up being an overall net minus.

Mind you, my attitude to work, jobs and the like is fairly well-known and not exactly conducive to being a productive, happy member of society in the first place, so I probably wouldn't listen to me. :-)

[j4.livejournal.com]

If the job would seem to involve the less desirable parts of your current work, but only more so, I have concerns that it might end up being an overall net minus.

Hmmm. The less desirable aspects of my current work are mostly that I've been stuck doing the same tedious stuff for the last 2 years or thereabouts -- namely doing the same crap half-fixes for the same data issues that nobody can be bothered to JUST GET RIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE. I think there's a risk that anywhere will suffer from the same problems, but a) hopefully I'd see the warning signs quicker if I started getting into a rut again, and be able to do something about it more effectively, and b) I think this is one case where a change really would be as good as a rest, if not better (after all I get plenty of time to rest and/or faff aimlessly in the current job, and it's one of the things that makes it dull).

The main problem with applying for jobs at the moment is that I'm concerned it'll look really indecisive if I go from publishing to web design and then later want to move into something else entirely. I don't think I'd want to make a career out of web design; although having web design experience would probably be useful for a lot of information-ish jobs, and would be useful/interesting anyway, so ... I dunno.

My attitude to work, jobs etc. is that they're a necessary evil; and since I have to do some sort of work I'd rather do something that a) is vaguely useful in a kind of woolly 'worthwhile' way, b) doesn't suck too much from my point of view, and c) pays me a reliable income. (Even if it's not a big reliable income it'd mean that I could plan for things.)

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

In that case, I'm with m'honourable college. Hell yes.

(It should be "colleague", but I rather like the brainfart.)