in the last six months, i have gotten jobs with two webmasters who i told straight out i had no experience or knowledge about. it sucks.
now i'm finishing off the worst 6 weeks of my entire working life. i told this guy i didn't want to do this, but he knew and trusted me, and asked me to give it a shot. silly me, i agreed.
it entailed encoding videos which i had to teach myself, since i had not one clue. my first video took 16 hours before i had all the sizes and formats i needed. the second one took 5 hours. now it takes me maybe 40 minutes, but the first two days - ouch!
this job also included learning css as i had to create pages for these sites (and not all css is very obvious to me!!!!) working in a script i had never used before with minimal instructions and no help when i needed it - or partial help and an unsearchable help file. there was more to this job, but the rest i could do with no problems.
at this point, i recommend that if you take a job where you are learning, you spell out VERY carefully that a learning curve is involved and all that. and you remind them any time they ask why something is taking so long.
or better yet, if such a job offers, run!!!!!!!!
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