I only know VB6, SQL, and ACCESS. It seems like now days, if your into VB, you have to know ASP, XML, C++, etc. I know that there are some straight VB jobs out there, but aren't they getting scarce? I mean is, if you know VB, you got to know a lot of other things. Should I start learning other languages and scripts? I was on Monster.com and ComputerJobs.com - just about every single VB job out there requires you to know a lot of other stuff. What's the deal hear?
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Visual Basic Career Question
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Welcome to the world of software development. You have to keep acquiring new skills in order to keep yourself marketable. If you are not constantly learning, you are falling behind. Kind of like a shark having to constantly keep moving in order to breathe...stop moving and he is dead. Same thing here.
I am constantly taking courses at UCLA extension, or reading. Currently, JSP, Servlets, Refactoring, Extreme Programming are on my nightstand next to my bed. This in addition to six programming languages...and I am just a manager!!
I encourage my developers to stay abreast as well. Two of my staff just got back from Java 1..and I have never turned down a request to purchase a technical book...and we are sending two of our support staff to UNIX courses since we are deploying more their.
This field moves so fast with new technologies and ways of doing things that it is hard to keep up. Thats the price of rapid growth.
gLuck
pivan In not now, when?
If not here, where?
If not us, who?
Just do it!!
I am constantly taking courses at UCLA extension, or reading. Currently, JSP, Servlets, Refactoring, Extreme Programming are on my nightstand next to my bed. This in addition to six programming languages...and I am just a manager!!
I encourage my developers to stay abreast as well. Two of my staff just got back from Java 1..and I have never turned down a request to purchase a technical book...and we are sending two of our support staff to UNIX courses since we are deploying more their.
This field moves so fast with new technologies and ways of doing things that it is hard to keep up. Thats the price of rapid growth.
gLuck
pivan In not now, when?
If not here, where?
If not us, who?
Just do it!!
All the different flavors of languanges and tools keep getting re-invented and us poor techies seem to always be just behind the wave, huh? The wave never ends. Just ask any "old-timer". (Look at this new stuff. Process on the mainframe. Now do it on the client. Now do it on the server, etc. )
You need to decide if you want to ride the big wave with everyone else or if you want to specialize and do "something" better than anyone else. They are different paths. It is easier to get a job if you ride with the crowd (1000 positions on Monster) but you will make a little less. Why would an employer pay a lot for a skill that everyone else has? What makes you more satisfied?
My advice to start out: get exposure to many things (to fill up the resume with buzz words) and master the ones that interest you. Remember the jack of all trades master of none? Eventually you'll come to see that all the different flavors are all based on the same concepts. (That's where the exposure helps). The learning never ends! But hey, at least you won't get bored like your roommate that became a CPA!
You need to decide if you want to ride the big wave with everyone else or if you want to specialize and do "something" better than anyone else. They are different paths. It is easier to get a job if you ride with the crowd (1000 positions on Monster) but you will make a little less. Why would an employer pay a lot for a skill that everyone else has? What makes you more satisfied?
My advice to start out: get exposure to many things (to fill up the resume with buzz words) and master the ones that interest you. Remember the jack of all trades master of none? Eventually you'll come to see that all the different flavors are all based on the same concepts. (That's where the exposure helps). The learning never ends! But hey, at least you won't get bored like your roommate that became a CPA!
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