{"id":926,"date":"2009-01-04T03:39:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2009\/01\/04\/re-job-technology-managersoftware-developer-for-multimedia-artist-studio-8\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T03:39:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T23:39:16","slug":"re-job-technology-managersoftware-developer-for-multimedia-artist-studio-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2009\/01\/04\/re-job-technology-managersoftware-developer-for-multimedia-artist-studio-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: JOB: Technology manager\/software developer for multimedia artist studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Content-Disposition: inline;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Mike, actually now I&#39;m also in a small crisis to which is my cou=<br \/>\nntry, and also what responsibilities I have towards them. I&#39;m in Mexico =<br \/>\nwhere in just one year in a half, it has changed drastically. I have never s=<br \/>\neen people so paranoid and scared. You explain Twitter to people or many Itp=<br \/>\n projects it makes them anxious.&nbsp;&nbsp; It seems that the sudden raise =<br \/>\nin security problems (kidnapping, robbery, extorsion), and the economical cr=<br \/>\nisis, ironically makes people scared of innovation of technology, and the us=<br \/>\nage of it. <\/p>\n<p>Now is time to start putting priorities. But well, just sharing some th=<br \/>\noughts and impressions. Thanks for the comment. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:19 PM, mike clemow <span>&amp;lt=<br \/>\n;gelfmuse@gmail.com&gt;<\/span> wro=<br \/>\nte:<br \/>\nHey Sandra, by &amp;qu=<br \/>\not;your country&quot; did you mean the U.S. or Mexico? &nbsp;I feel<br \/>\nlike, if there&#39;s not a compelling reason to go back to Mexico<br \/>\nspecifically after you graduate, and you&#39;re stilling willing to be the<br \/>\nworldly traveller that you already are, I&#39;d go where the jobs<br \/>\nare&#8211;especially in this market. &nbsp;At least for a few years after you<br \/>\ngraduate.<\/p>\n<p>Also, being bilingual, you have more than just Mexico and the U.S. to<br \/>\nconsider as possible placement. &nbsp;You have most of South America,<br \/>\nSpain, as well as any English-speaking country in which to look for<br \/>\njobs.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\nOn Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Sandra D=E1vila &lt;sandraxi@gmail.com&gt; wrote:<br \/>\n&gt; Interesting discussion&#8230; thanks patrick for the resources they seem r=<br \/>\neally<br \/>\n&gt; interesting.<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; What worries me more and I don&#39;t know about other people what happ=<br \/>\nens with<br \/>\n&gt; international people after itp&#8230; does people go back to their country=<br \/>\n?<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; I have being discerning about this.. should I come back to Mexico?&#8230; =<br \/>\nIs<br \/>\n&gt; difficult when you invest a lot of money and your country is not able =<br \/>\nto<br \/>\n&gt; offer you opportunities regarding your studies, anyway just some thoug=<br \/>\nhts.<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM, mike clemow &lt;gelfmuse@gmail.com&gt; wrote:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; It ought to be said that, if you were looking to make huge $$$, yo=<br \/>\nu&#39;re<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; kind of in the wrong place too. &nbsp;I&#39;m certainly taking a m=<br \/>\najor salary<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; cut in addition to accruing &nbsp;thousands in debt by coming here=<br \/>\n. &nbsp;My<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; hope is that it&#39;s worth it to have a job that makes me happy.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; My humble $0.02.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; -mc<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Patrick Grizzard &lt;roygbiv@gmail.com&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; wrote:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; This is a job managing the studio for a single artist who mak=<br \/>\nes work for<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; galleries, museums and private collectors, so I don&#39;t thi=<br \/>\nnk its really<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; representative of the job market as a whole. Presumably this =<br \/>\njob would<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; appeal to someone who is looking for the opportunity to work =<br \/>\nfor a name<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; artist and get experience working on large-scale projects, ma=<br \/>\nke<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; connections<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; in the art world, and, by doing so, improve their own opportu=<br \/>\nnities for<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; showing work, being represented, getting exposure, etc., etc.=<br \/>\n IOW, this<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; job<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; is REALLY not about the money. If that&#39;s more of a priori=<br \/>\nty, then I<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; think,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; in general, you&#39;re going to be looking at jobs with inter=<br \/>\nactive agencies<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; and<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; studios, tech start-ups, or perhaps an in-house design\/techno=<br \/>\nlogy<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; division<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; of a larger media\/web\/tech company.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; This is not to say that there aren&#39;t people out there try=<br \/>\ning to find an<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; interaction designer with great graphic design and programmin=<br \/>\ng skills,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; experience editing feature-length films and creating broadcas=<br \/>\nt-qulity<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; motion<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; graphics, basic robotics knowledge, strong bookeeping skills,=<br \/>\n and a<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; portable<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; espresso maker for $12\/hour. I think people who are looking f=<br \/>\nor this are<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; generally clueless and\/or desparate and, as Tymm mentioned, t=<br \/>\nhey assume<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; that<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; a recent grad is more likely to take what they can get, so IT=<br \/>\nP gets<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; targeted<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; disproportionately with these types of jobs.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; Check out some job posting sites to get a better sense of wha=<br \/>\nt the<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; market is<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; actually like. I haven&#39;t been looking recently, but these=<br \/>\n used to be<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; some of<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; my go-to resources. Also, where else do people look for job p=<br \/>\nostings (FT<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; or<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; freelance gigs)?<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; http:\/\/www.coroflot.com\/public\/jobs_browse.asp<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; http=<br \/>\n:\/\/jobs.37signals.com\/<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; http:\/\/jobs.boxesandarrows.com\/jobs<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; http:\/\/www.ixda.org\/topics.php?topic=3Djobs<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; Also, some recruiters post open job descriptions on their sit=<br \/>\nes:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; http:\/\/w=<br \/>\nww.aquent.com\/<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; http:\/\/www.=<br \/>\ncgr.com\/<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; I also have a number of recruiters I&#39;ve worked with in th=<br \/>\ne past who send<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; out<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; weekly or monthly emails with open jobs. A lot of these same =<br \/>\nones go to<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; the<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; IxDA listserv, if your subscribed to that. Same with nyc-chi.=<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; :P<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:11 AM, petra farinha<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; &lt;petra.prin=<br \/>\ntscreen@gmail.com&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; wrote:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; it~s funny that midori sends emails so early&#8230;when we ar=<br \/>\ne still here!<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; but yes&#8230;welcome to the job posts!!<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; and there are others that ask for people that do everythi=<br \/>\nng: designer,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; coding for everything u can imagine, architect, product d=<br \/>\nesigner,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; coffee<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; maker, secretary for less money!<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; sweet dreams!<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Tymm Twillman &lt;tmt271@nyu.edu&gt; wrote:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; A lot of the postings to the list are pretty bad like=<br \/>\n that, but I<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; suspect the folks who want to pay crappily tend to se=<br \/>\nnd out more<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; requests.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; But yeah, that&#39;s an awful salary for this kind of=<br \/>\n position.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:59 AM, Robert Carlsen wrote:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; I really hope this isn&#39;t representative of t=<br \/>\nhe job market&#8230;.that<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; was<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; my starting salary as a multimedia developer fre=<br \/>\nsh out of undergrad,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; with a graphic design degree and no practical pr=<br \/>\nogramming<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; experience&#8230;.in 2000.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; so, if that&#39;s what i have to look forward to=<br \/>\n after 10 years of<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; experience and an $80,000+ investment in further=<br \/>\n education,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; then&#8230;.ouch.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; Job title =96 Technology manager\/software de=<br \/>\nveloper for multimedia<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; artist studio<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; Ideal candidate has several years experience=<br \/>\n or a grad degree.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; &#8230;Starting salary is $38,000, plus benefits=<br \/>\n after 90 days for full<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; time. Part<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; time considered for the right candidate; sal=<br \/>\nary negotiable.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; &#8212;<br \/>\n tmt271@nyu.edu<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; leave-9919208-3322519.d58c6c1504d702=<br \/>\n841edff57af865c1ed@lists.nyu.edu<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; &#8212;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; petra.=<br \/>\nprintscreen@gmail.com<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; leave-9919210-3318506.c07a5ec5121385706e7=<br \/>\n7a00ba4428182@lists.nyu.edu<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; &#8212;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; Petra Farinha<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; &#8212;<br \/>\n=3D&#8221;mailto:roygbiv@gmail.com&#8221;&gt;roygbiv@gmail.com<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; leave-9919212-4275892.19dc8f31fb7af86c6922856=<br \/>\n7c6688440@lists.nyu.edu<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; &#8212;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; Patrick J. Grizzard<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; www.gn=<br \/>\neumatic.net<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; &#8212;<br \/>\nailto:gelfmuse@gmail.com&#8221;&gt;gelfmuse@gmail.com<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &gt; leave-9919441-3385671.7f68c50ffcbbb19bdd4d2903f44=<br \/>\n790d1@lists.nyu.edu<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &#8212;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; http:\/\/mich=<br \/>\naelclemow.com<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; http:\/\/semiotec=<br \/>\nh.org<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; &#8212;<br \/>\n:sandraxi@gmail.com&#8221;&gt;sandraxi@gmail.com<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; leave-9921007-3318661.14e182cf461fcee0a997126bb26af7f1=<br \/>\n@lists.nyu.edu<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; &#8212;<br \/>\nfmuse@gmail.com&#8221;&gt;gelfmuse@gmail.com\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&gt; leave-9921970-3385671.7f68c50ffcbbb19bdd4d2903=<br \/>\nf44790d1@lists.nyu.edu<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/michaelclemow=<br \/>\n.com<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/semiotech.org=<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n@gmail.com&#8221;&gt;sandraxi@gmail.com<br \/>\n3318661.14e182cf461fcee0a997126bb26af7f1@lists.nyu.edu&#8221;&gt;leave-9921988-331866=<br \/>\n1.14e182cf461fcee0a997126bb26af7f1@lists.nyu.edu\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n59ffd6927690e6c1@lists.nyu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content-Disposition: inline; Thanks Mike, actually now I&#39;m also in a small crisis to which is my cou= ntry, and also what responsibilities I have towards&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","category-listserv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}