I work in India and I see that Flash designers are no longer required here anymore.
The only place they have here is for character 2D animation.
Its seems that the mental plane has changed and RAD no longer exists. All text inputs creation and its placement, animations, transitions have gone to programmers who have no design sense whatsoever. Also no companies here understand that AS3 requires quite a bit of time for starting and a planned workflow. They get directly to implementation even for small projects and the deadlines are shorter than they were when it was in AS 2 which could be accomplished with many workarounds.
Timeline coding is also completely out. And to think that Adobe said that do not program on the components directly you can code on the timeline instead which no one wants anymore. Go OOP. Even for a simple tiny program say bounce a ball test do I have to follow OOP?
I even found a strange phenomenon wherein a company interviewed me with a mix of AS2 and AS3 questions together both of which changed the answer automatically. Sometimes what would have been output in AS2 turns out as an error in AS3 because of strict type definitions. I had to give two answers to almost all the questions even though they were option based.
I hope the same situation is not elsewhere.
Otherwise it seems like Flash designers have been given the grave stone to hold.
Born Future Splash, Lived till Flash AS2, Died Flash AS3
