All points are well taken - and I AGREE - from a theoretical standpoint - it's just - well - maybe I'm under different constraints (real or imagined) than you guys. If I were working per/hour, then 3-4 hours a day x 5 days a week is 15-20 hours at $100/hr is $1500 - $2000 a week I wouldn't be making - I can not afford that kind of investment in my "education" with 3 kids, mortgage, etc. etc. etc.

As it is - on salary - I would have a hard time justifying the time when projects are constantly due yesterday - sigh - maybe it's just the work, clientele, etc. - thanks!


>>Don't you people have jobs? I mean - I barely have time to look at the subject lines of most posts, let alone answer questions and respond to three or four follow-up questions. In all seriousness - are you independantly wealthy and do this as a hobby? Are you work-a-holics who stay up all night doing your client/company work? Do you get paid to spend time answering questions? Are you incredible multi-taskers?
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>In addition to all that Jim said.
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>I personally spend about 1-2 hours a day, as Jim mentioned, reading, newsgroups etc.
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>However, one thing Jim didn't mention in addition to all that he said was that, the investment in expanding your knowledge is paid back many fold in the time that you spend.
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>You say you spend all your time Designing, Codeing, etc... well, what if all that work you had done, someone already did. Well, if you don't know that, you can't take advantage of it.
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>Do you, before you tackle a problem of issue, spend some time researching how others have solved the problem in the past?
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>There is a quote someone once said, I don't remember who it was, or exactally the quote, so I am paraphrasing when I say it:
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>An average man learns from his own mistakes, an ABOVE average man, learns also from the mistakes of others.
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>BOb