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Tom Green to his Flash class: "Welcome to your new careers"

Tom Green, a Professor of Interactive Multimedia at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning’s School of Media Studies, taught his students a valuable lesson the day Adobe announced Flash for mobile devices was dead:

Of course walking into this whole mess in today’s Flash class was a treat. The first thing I saw was a student holding up his iPhone and showing me a “Flash is dead” Tweet as I was going through the door. “So why are we here?”, he asks.

I waited for all of the students to get settled and it was an eerie experience. The room was silent and the students just stared at me .“Why the f@#k are we taking this Flash course if Flash is dead” was sort of the question being beamed at me. It was not what I was expecting.

Rather than become an Adobe apologist – which they sort of expected – I told them . “Welcome to your new careers. If you can’t deal with this sort of change on a regular basis … there’s the door. Go get a refund and go drive a beer truck.”

via Gus Mueller

Yup that pretty much describes it. This industry is full of pivoting your skills. Fun isn’t it?

Source: chartier