Re: [OT] Job hunting
Re: [OT] Job hunting
- Subject: Re: [OT] Job hunting
- From: Adam Hall <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:44:44 -0500
You make some good points especially about Perl and PHP. I suspect the
problem with everyone dismissing $10-15 shareware apps is that its
hard to know if selling 10,000 copies is realistic. I can tell you a
tenth of that would be a hit in my experience, but I could be doing
things totally wrong. I imagine some people on this list must have had
this kind of success, perhaps they should say something?
Adam
On Mar 22, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Charlton Wilbur wrote:
On Mar 22, 2005, at 7:22 AM, Adam Hall wrote:
You NEED more Windows and C++ experience and or Java to earn a living
in IT as a programmer in MOST cases. Just the opinion of someone who
has tried to stay exclusive to a narrow set of technologies and
learned that the rest of the world was out there doing a different
thing :-). If anyone else has experience otherwise, I would love to
hear it, as I always find it inspirational to see the success of
others, such as the recent success of Delicious Monster etc.
While I agree with your basic point -- employment is *always* easier
for a programmer with a diverse skill set, especially if some of the
skills are buzzword-compliant fads, it's entirely possible to make a
good living as a programmer without Windows, Java, and C++ experience.
You just need a different set of currently-popular skills; at the
moment, being able to write good Perl or PHP, plus a good knowledge of
databases, is enough to get you secure employment (modulo the vagaries
of the hiring process).
There seem to be two viable routes for programmers, though. One is to
work in industry, and this one requires knowledge of at least one
current buzzword-compliant language; the other is to work for
yourself. If you have an idea for a brilliant program, write it and
release it as shareware for $15. Once 10,000 people pay for your
software, you get to laugh all the way to the bank at the programmers
making only $65,000 a year. It amazes me how many people use those
little $10-$15 shareware utilities and yet completely dismiss them as
a viable source of income.
Charlton
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