I work as a Typesetter / Graphic Designer / Light Developer at a little place downtown. Long story short the company I work for had our parent company borrow a very large sum of money from us to stay afloat. I no longer see a concrete future with this company as we have already started to see the parent company's failings effect us (lot's of cuts and being very very critical of our need for new and updated equipment as well as postponing yearly performance reviews for a few months).
I have a Certificate in Multimedia Web Design and Development which while I understand that it isn't the strongest education I still have it. I am very confident in my skills when it comes to anything Graphical (raster/vector) as well as pretty confident in my skills when it comes to print and print practices. I have been working around and in the industry for a few years now and have a good grasp on good design practices.
Where I lack skill is mostly on development, I am comfortable doing website maintenance as well as light modifications and page creation but I am very much not equipped to handle code implementation and creation from scratch.
Now my question, what are your feelings on being able to land a new job (by choice or necessity) with the skills I have? Should I be seriously looking into furthering my education to cater more to the development side of things or do you think that I will be able to fly by with what I have? I hope to have a completely revamped portfolio by the end of this month which will hopefully help me out.
As for wage: I won't say I make tons of money now But I would have to be making about 35k a year to stay afloat. From what I understand that isn't terrible for my education/skill level but correct me if I'm wrong.
Anyways thanks for the input and discussion.