[mllerustad]

Oh god. I'm doing the job search song-and-dance right now and you wouldn't believe how many interviewers have asked me "So..... you do design, and you also code. Which do you like more?" Which to me is a completely nonsensical question. It's like asking if I prefer spreading peanut butter or spreading jam. No, I like making PB&Js (or web apps). Why is that hard to understand?

Well, some of these interviewers are recruiters, and they have to put me in a well-defined box in order to match me to a position. I have some sympathy there. But the others... are more disappointing.

But: I've found that the people and companies that "get it", really get it, and will reward you for it. Instead of asking about the "design" and "code" boxes, we can have actually useful conversations about subsets of skills within them (user experience research! graphics! Javascript! Python! databases!) What with my technical inferiority complex and such, such people value me even more than I value myself.

And for those that don't, well, when you create your own company down the road, it will build things that are neither vaporware mockups nor asstastic apps, and have a culture of "getting it" from the start, so you can eat their lunch. :)