I've read your postings and I don't get it.
Who can't get a job in programming today who has any experience? Companies are so desperate they will hire any old person and train them, if they ever took a science class. And experienced people generally have their pick of dozens of jobs, in any sizable city, each offering more money and perks than the last.
We are living in the golden age, at least in terms of money, amount of work, job offers, perks, benefits, stock options. Three years ago, when I left grad school, I had 7 offers, 6 of them Unix only. Of the 10 of so people who started grad school when I did, I'm probably the only one working in NT. There are zillions of Unix job offers out there.
All the experienced people I know have multiple job offers. Where I work, we develop NT applications. I work at Microsoft on SQL Server. Most of the people I interview are very experienced with Unix, and have little or no NT experience. It doesn't really matter what OS they have worked with, its more important how good a problem solver they are, and their fundamental knowledge.
But then again, most of the people I interview have PhDs or Master's Degrees.
And as for me, I worked at a company that used IBM mainframes. I hated working on them, and I am glad I don't work there now.
And no, its not my job to read this newsgroup or post here, I'm just reading it on my own.
-nick |
