84 Making It Work
A full-time web designer. While full-time versus part-
time was a roughly equal split among happy folk, 73% of
respondents who reported unhappiness were not full-time
designers.
You spend at least a quarter of your time doing design
work. There was a notable increase in happiness if your
working hours comprised of at least 25% of the time work-
ing on designing and building websites.
On average, how much of your time do you spend actually
designing and building websites?
University or college educated AND you felt your educa-
tion was relevant. More so than the education itself, your
attitude on education is a big indicator for job satisfaction
as a web designer. Overwhelmingly, those who received
advanced education which they felt was relevant or highly
relevant to their career reported higher happiness.
Do your find your education relevant to your work in web
design?
90% or more
76 to 90%
51 to 75%
26 to 50%
11 to 25%
Less than 10% 76.2%
52.4%
48.4%
36.6%
38.3%
32.7%
23.8%
47.6%
51.6%
63.4%
61.7%
67.3%
Ar e you happy working in web design? Yes No
Highly relevant.
Moderately relevant.
Somewhat relevant.
Very little or not at all. 57.6%
50.7%
44.1%
38.3%
42.4%
49.3%
55.9%
61.7%
Ar e you happy working in web design? Yes No
