Well, first you need to build a time machine...I'm working as an independent contractor and am almost done a career change to teaching high school English...got my certification, all I need now is a full-time teaching gig. In the meantime, I sub when time allows.
Now, of course, if someone wants to bribe me away from this career change, I'm all ears :P, but the realist in me knows that I'll never be a CIO and there aren't so many jobs out there for 39 year old CF developers. Pete On 3/28/06, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Man... How does one get to work on your team, Pete? :) > > > Let me give you my own personal experience, it might help. > > > 6 years ago, I was the manager of a small (5 person) web > > design group > > at a medium-sized software company. At the time, I had > > about equal > > experience with ASP and CF. > > > My team was great -- young, enthusiastic, willing to > > learn...but all > > they knew was HTML (except for one, who could modify a .pl > > mailer > > script and that was about it). The challenge? I was > > tasked with > > converting our then-antiquated web site from static HTML > > to something > > dynamic and hopefully content-managed. > > > I discussed the chellenges facing us with my team, and > > presented the > > viable options - jsp, php, asp, cf. We looked at code > > examples from > > each together and narrowed the pack down to ASP (because > > of its market > > relevance) and CF (because it was familiar to a person who > > knew HTML > > with an understanding of the words "if" and "else" :) > > > I took my two most enthusiastic and promising individuals > > and gave > > them a one-day coding challenge; I would create a > > database, they would > > need to create interfaces that would insert, update, > > delete, and > > display that data. One would use ASP, the other would use > > CF. For > > the record, I put the person who was probably the smarter > > of the two > > on the ASP project, and I bought each of them a good book > > to study the > > night before so they could have some familiarity. > > > We started at 9AM the next day. The person who was using > > CF finished > > the task in three hours; the person who was using ASP was > > still > > working on it at 4:30PM. The next day, ASP guy came in > > and said > > "screw it, I want to try this with CF". He completed the > > task in > > about 2.5 hours. As a group, we made the decision then > > and there to > > go with CF. > > > Over the next several weeks, I held daily brown bag lunch > > sessions > > where we sat in a conference room and I went over best > > practices, some > > SQL basics, and went into some CF intricacies. Within a > > couple of > > months, I felt that the entire team was proficient in CF, > > with one or > > two showing true talent. We never looked back from there. > > > Pete > > s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 > new epoch : isn't it time for a change? > > add features without fixtures with > the onTap open source framework > > http://www.fusiontap.com > http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:236358 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
