There is very little work in Connecticut. Based on what I can tell, there is very little CF work in the Northeast.
At 01:20 AM 10/20/2004, you wrote: >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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Protect your mail server with built in anti-virus protection. It's not only good for you, it's good for everybody. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=39 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:11:2103 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
