thanks all so much for the advice. I really appreciate it.
maybe i'll luck up and find a company that's looking to make an 'investment' in someone ;) that would be ok with giving me maybe a little more time than they would someone else.
thanks all so much for the advice. I really appreciate it.
maybe i'll luck up and find a company that's looking to make an 'investment' in someone ;) that would be ok with giving me maybe a little more time than they would someone else.
Thanks for the advice!
I'll look into that. Never really looked at C#, but i don't doubt that i could pick it up.
The only reason i was thinking a certification would be worth it is due to the fact that i have no professional experience whatsoever with the language and maybe that would help a potential employer not simply disregard my resume immediately.
Hi all...
i have a dilemma (sp) that i'm trying to figure out. First of all, i've been out of college for 4 years now (Comp Sci degree) working as a systems analyst for a company that develops a web inventory mgmt software (orders, replenishing, stock tracking, etc). I've been 'promoted' several times and given much more responsiblity each time (which is ok)....but it seems that now i'm more or less a technical writer, researching applications and how to change them and its not something i really want to continue doing. I miss the actual programming that i used to be able to do.
Our company is fairly 'low-tech'. All of our coding is done in pl/sql with an oracle 9i backend. So while i'm fairly proficient in pl/sql now (and along with that, html/css), i feel like my technological know-how is suffering and i'm kind of stumped as to the best way to build it back up.
From what i've seen on the various job sites, it seems that .NET is where most of the programming jobs seem to fall, so i thought that i should focus my energy on that (i learned on c++ in college, so i'm fairly comfortable with the OOP design).
My question to you all is, how should i approach tryign to find a job back in the programming side of the field when i know that the programming (what little it is) i do now isn't in high demand anywhere. Would working towards a .net ms certification be a valid path? Any ideas? I'm wiiiiiide open and willing to learn.
Thanks
Chris