At 49 years old Should I go for a web Development or a Windows Administration career?

Please be honest with me. I have no time to waste at my age. My best options plz. Thanks.

At 49 years old Should I go for a web Development or a Windows Administration career?
I think you should try administration with development at an 80% admin 20% developer





So you can not only admin a server but be able to patch up peoples scripts... to make a functioning system all around








I know its a touch choice... but i hope it helps some














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Reply:I'm a 23 year old college student studying Web Design. I'm currently in my senior year, and interning at a Web Design firm. I couldn't be happier with where I am in life right now. I love web design and it didn't take long to get me hooked.





If you decide to get into web development, make sure you find classes, etc that teach the newest and most up-to-date trends in not only development but design as well. It pays to have a strong sense of design as well as an understanding of development.





Make sure you learn CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). It is the newest and best way that websites can be designed. The old way with tables is an absolute headache and does not allow for nicely designed websites. Also try to learn Adobe Flash and its language called ActionScript. Most web companies use Flash alot for advertisements, microsites, and sometimes to create an entire web site. I would also try and take some design classes (learning Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator) and possibly a class teaching JavaScripting.





Good luck, if you need any additional info/help, feel free to email me.
Reply:Without knowing your background it's a difficult answer.





Web Development, would be geared more towards someone who is good at programming. You need to be fluent in at least one server-side programming language (C#/PHP/Python/JAVA/etc...)





If you don't know how to program or don't like programming, then web development is not a good path.





If you like graphic design, then that is a path you can take which may lead you into web layout designs and logos.





Windows Administration is someone who likes to be hands on in fixing the systems and the problems associated with them.





I did technical support for microsoft for over 3 years, and decided windows administration was not right for me. I enjoyed programming a lot and went into web development which I'm currently doing very happily.





If you want to talk more about this from my experience, then feel free to email me: irishtek@yahoo.com with any questions you have.
Reply:Web Development has a lot of potential but you MUST be creative and dynamic to be in that career, window Administrator would be easy and you will have to do that same job over years unless windows chages, so I would ask you to go for Windows Admiinstrator..





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Reply:Either one, you'll have to be online alot to keep up as things change quickly and you'll have to keep up. You may find website development more fun, busy, active, varied, diverse. You'll have alot of websites to ping your interest (that is, unless you get hooked up with, say, one or two full-time clients, long-term...)





Windows Administration, you may find, is a long-term but perhaps higher-paying(?) commitment to one more focused area, perhaps more specialized and hard-core, focusing on depths and both hardware and software.





Website developers are somewhat more the artist types. Windows administrators are somewhat more the manager types. It all depends on how you see and feel yourself to be. Judge thyself, carefully.
Reply:Either;


If you have Design Skills, and can work in at Least Three different Major Languages for Development you should be fine; Other than that; Windows Admin would require Getting Broader skills in LAN, WAN, SAN, and some up and coming technologies. Most of the aspects of Windows Admin May Become obsolete quickly, especially if some market leaders come up the path quickly.


I see a lot of people of all ages in Development. Usually to get to Windows Admin, you need a long Period as a Tech, and then it is all office Politics as to where you go and how, depending on the size of the organization, and you may have to make a number of strategic moves quickly to other Organisations based on your qualifications