Re: Help me please to find a job in Cocoa
Re: Help me please to find a job in Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Help me please to find a job in Cocoa
- From: Phillip Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:01:19 -0500
on 12/17/02 9:54 AM, matt neuburg at email@hidden wrote:
>
If you're someone who says "yes" to
>
everything the client asks you to do, and delivers, they'll want you back
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again and again. If you whine at what an idiot you think they are, they won't.
I agree with the sense of your message...although some of the best and most
sought-after people I've known are ones who can take what the client asks
for, translate it into what the client needs, and then convince them to ask
for *that* instead.
On the other hand, there are "environmental" factors at work. I was caught
in a corporate implosion at the end of October and have now been looking for
work for longer than at any other time in the 23 years since I first started
doing "computer stuff". Since I'm flogging years of design skills, unix,
OOP, Java, SQL -- you name it -- as well as Mac experience, I would have
expected *some* interest. Maybe it's the time of year, but not much is
happening.
If I were to insist on Cocoa as a feature of my next job, I suspect I'd
still be typing this next year...and the one after. (In the mean time, I'm
designing and prototyping an open source project to get my Cocoa chops in
better shape just in case.)
However, in my last 3 jobs, going back 9 years or more, I have not started
out doing Macintosh programming, but have helped bring Macs into the
organizations. The strategy: be good at what you do, then explain to your
employer how much better you can be on a platform that doesn't hold you
back. :-)
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