San Diego, but to stay busy over the past 3 years I have worked a lot of gigs in Orange Count 90 miles away. However lots of CF stuff has been opening up of late in San Diego.
There are places in the country much better than here, D.C. area for one. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffry Houser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Jobs-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:53 AM Subject: Re: The State of Programming in the United States? > Where are you located? > > At 10:46 PM 10/18/2004, you wrote: > >David, > > > >In the last three months I have turned down several jobs because I was > >overbooked. > > > >Last month I was offered a full time job with benefits making $15,000 more > >per year than I was making 4 years ago during boom times. > > > >My secret - I have just continued to hustle and been fortunate to come up > >with regular consulting gigs during the last 3 or 4 years. As a result my > >skills have been greatly upgraded, by having to continually hit the ground > >running at everything from well organized > >FuseBox and Mach-II development to horrendous spahghetti applications in CF 4. > > > >Right now there is a lot of more opportunity for good CFers than there has > >been for the last 4 years. Work at it and be tenacious. Don't talk and > >read yourself into failure. Best of luck to you. > > > > > >Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: David Simcik > > To: CF-Jobs-Talk > > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:08 PM > > Subject: The State of Programming in the United States? > > > > > > Hi, > > I read a truly scary article on the Christian Science Monitor last > > week that stated rather matter-a-factly that the American programmer was > > about to become as extinct as the dinosaur because of foreign > > competition. As people that are in the know, at least as far as Cold > > Fusion development is concerned, do you think this position is true? If > > so, what are you doing about it? If not, why is it different? I must > > admit as someone that has been doing Cold Fusion/Java development for > > close to 7 years now that I was pretty darn frightened by what I read > > and there doesn't seem to be a whole heck of a lot going on for > > programmers on sites like Monster.com, etc either. Tell me what you > > think -- I'm all ears. > > > > Kind Regards, > > DTS > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| The annual ColdFusion User Conference is being held Sat 6/26 - Sun 6/27/04 8am-5pm in the Washington DC Area. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=44 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:11:2102 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/11 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:11 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
