On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 6 months or so later I quit that job and became a freelance web developer > but after about 6 months of making almost no money, I had to get a real > job, > and my wife and I moved to North Carolina where I got my first web > developer > job doing Coldfusion programming in 1998.
That's awesome. The summer after my Junior year, I put my name in for an paid intern position with our job placement group at the university. They told me that a company was interested in me, and that they programmed in Cold Fusion...i told them i had no freaking clue what that language was. Keep in mind, I'd never even done HTML at that point....still plugging away in C++, pretty much oblivious to net programming. So I interned there about 20 hours a week. Basically I got paid AND got school credit while this company taught me Cold Fusion and HTML/Web design at the same time. Doesn't get much better than that. In hindsight, I wish I *HAD* majored in CS in college because I would've > come out of college in 1995 with a CS degree, and ready to dive into the > dot > com boom. I might've ended up with a dot com and sold my shares for > millions of dollars. I graduated in '98, with a CS degree, went straight to a .COM....got a bunch of shares, and 3 years later, the company was gone and my shares were worth bumpkiss. Ah well....my timing was off by a few years. Still wouldn't trade the experience for anything....learned a ton. -- Now my dreams are heavy things That are muddied by reality ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259470 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
