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Originally posted by Kat:
At what stage do you stop being a newbie then? Time in the biz? Hits per day? Revenue earned?
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I like to think that newbie status ends when they figure out what the fuck they are doing. Not everything of course... I still learn something every day... but I'm talking about focus and direction and goals, and maybe a little strategy.
When they have figured out what is working for them and what is not, and have at least some sort of grip on what they're gonna do, and can add, subtract, change, modify, tweak, or whatever from there.... then they're no longer a newbie.
Spacedog is a good example. He's still all over the place. Doesn't really know what the hell he wants to do, so he's asking questions about everything under the sun. Which, in all truth, is fine... (even though we ride him pretty hard for it) but it is painfully obvious that he still hasn't found his groove in the biz yet... hence:
Newbie. When he finally comes to the place where "this & that are working" and "this other shit ain't..." and starts to take the things that ARE working and make them better.... then....
That's not to say that we don't all try new stuff.... cuz we do. Some of it works, some of it doesn't. But we've already got a pretty good grasp of the way things work. Same as any other industry really... there's rookies in any profession.
Success is not necessarily the indicator, but rather, experience. (or the lack thereof)