June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
10h 33m
English
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Chapter 1. Web Operations: The Career
THE INTERNET IS AN INTERESTING MEDIUM IN WHICH TO WORK. Almost all forms of business are now being conducted on the Internet, and people continue to capitalize on the fact that a global audience is on the other side of the virtual drive-thru window.
The Internet changes so quickly that we rarely have time to cogitate what we're doing and why we're doing it. When it comes to operating the fabric of an online architecture, things move so fast and change so significantly from quarter to quarter that we struggle to stay in the game, let alone ahead of it. This high-stress, overstimulating environment leads to treating the efforts therein as a job without the concept of a career.
What's the difference, you ask? A career is an occupation taken on for a significant portion of one's life, with opportunities for progress. A job is a paid position of regular employment. In other words, a job is just a job.
Although the Internet has been around for more than a single generation at this point, the Web in its current form is still painfully young and is only now breaking past a single generational marker. So, how can you fill a significant portion of your life with a trade that has existed for only a fraction of the time that one typically works in a lifetime? At this point, to have finished a successful career in web operations, you must have been pursuing this art for longer than it has existed. In the end, it is the pursuit that matters. ...
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