This is a guest post by my friend Lynette Chandler. She is the owner of Tech Based Marketing. Lynette’s expertise has been very beneficial to my growth on the Internet and I am proud to have her as a guest on my blog.
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It is quite evident the Internet is to remain as an entertainment, communication and commerce medium. Organizations of any size who want to use and compete online, must maintain and explore new technologies.
Small and local businesses on the other hand need to get on board if they haven’t already. All this require competent web engineers, developers as well as designers. In short, the need for such talent is apparent and you would be a smart teen to consider a career in web engineering or web development.
The good news – there is no need for you to wait till after you complete school to figure out if this is a good fit for you. You could start right now by being a technical assistant.
What is a technical assistant?
Because small businesses owners often can’t afford a full time IT guy let alone an entire department, a technical assistant is someone who fills that gap. This can be anything from someone who does hardware, manage software and networking on premises to someone who only handles web development and anything to do with web tech for the business.
Growing up with the Internet, most teens are pretty savvy with the Internet to begin with. Learning web development would be a lot easier for you. So it is quite natural for you to start there, then sell your services to a few clients.
If you like it, great! Keep doing and growing it. By the time you graduate or at the end of college, you might have a very successful business that doesn’t require you to find a job elsewhere – unless you want to of course.
If you don’t. That’s totally OK. Your skills in web development will carry you far even if you do not go in that direction. Here’s what I mean. We recently worked with a worship director of a church. That’s all he ever wanted to do and he is working his dream job. Yet, we worked with him for months on their web site and today he is in charge of maintaining the site. Having a little web development savvy can make your job – regardless what it is – a lot easier and even more fun.
Lynette Chandler is the Technical Manager to successful Internet marketers. She invites you to begin learning some web tech skills for free, visit Tech Based Marketing. Keep in mind, it might be a good idea to keep your parents in the loop before signing up.
