Aaron the "budding" horticulturist queried:

>anything else that would make someone hiring for this type of
>position really just jump up
>and down and say "this is the guy we want" over someone with a
>landscape architecture or
>horticulture degree?

If I were a talented web designer, as I know you are Aaron .. here's
what I'd do:

Build a "virtual museum of horticulture" (or gardens, or herbaria, or
etc etc) .. You'd be killing multiple numbers of feathered aviators
with one mineralized nugget .. (to coin a new phrase) .. first you'd
be FORCED to research the topic and provide evidence of your
understanding ..  but more more that .. you'd be creating an edge
over your competition .. something a potential employer might be
impressed by. .. "Hey, remember that guy we interviewed who built the
virtual museum of botanical ephemera? Let's get him back here!"

Just my 2 cents. - Oh, and if you'd care to check out an already
developed "museum of dirt" .. visit http://www.museumstuff.com .. and
go the the newsletter area (not the news area. There's been some
confussion about this) .. I'm featuring a link to it this week.

Roy Hemmat
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http://www.museumstuff.com
** winner .. Best E-Services Solution, Museums and the Web, 2001

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