Re: [PLUG] seeks a career clue (please don't flame)

[Paul <gyoza@comcast.net>]

FloydLJohnsonIII@aol.com wrote:

> (The last time I asked a question of that matter, I wandered into a flame war.)
>  
I wonder why that happened.

> What IT skills are marketable in your purview (life after "those guys in Redmond finally got it right")?
>
> I'm an old hand at C, having trained on SunOS circa 1990 and professionally used Visual C++. On the job, I showed I could switch-hit by porting a BOOTP server.
>
> By 2002, I found that the market sought old hands at Java and/or VB. As such, I was caught unprepared. 
>
> The question is this: What skills, as far as you know, are most sought by those seeking to fill IT jobs? The idea is to catch up to the market and find a way to pass it. ("Get competitive again, then get ahead.")
>
>  
I'm sure a few people here can testify to the fact that I'm not an 
expert.  However, I do have an opinion.  When it comes to programming, 
as far as I can tell from job ads, the qualifications sought after are 
either a Bachelor's degree and some experience, or proven skills and a 
lot of experience.  I get the impression that some places will reject a 
person who lacks a degree no matter how capable that person is.

Well, VB takes you into the Micro$oft world.  (I guess that dollar sign 
is a welcome sight to you!)  Oh, Visual C++ is also from the M$ world.  
Is that the platform you want to work on?

I think GNU/Linux has a big future.  I think Window$ has a big future, 
too.  That makes it important for Linux and Windows to interoperate.  It 
is also nice to have applications which can run on both platforms.  In 
other words, multi-platform, portable programming is a good thing.

Object-oriented programming seems to be popular these days.  (I can work 
with classes, but I don't want to write one!)

Anyway, what do you want to do?

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