Khalid Aslan wrote:
Peter
You are absolutely right. The big financial
institution in the city do have the money and
the where-with-it-all to invest in a new technologies.
I dont necessarily want another banking job at all.
I am happy to look for another vertical sector.
Are you saying that only big banks want to develop J2EE applications? I might possibly believe it.
I have looked at the job sites today and apparently
only the investment banks are offering J2EE jobs.
Hi Khalid
Worst still the same jobs are appearing up to three times a day on the same job server. Here an example for an Integration Development Manager http://www.it.jobserve.com/jobserve/JobDetail.asp?jobid=B2491F3D8FB8CA06 http://www.it.jobserve.com/jobserve/JobDetail.asp?jobid=372CB244A66D4378 http://www.it.jobserve.com/jobserve/JobDetail.asp?jobid=D508EBCBB03B763E Notice the same different servlet parameter parameter value "jobid" all reference to exact same job specification from the agency E-volution Recruitment Solution Ltd. So what the hell. It's bloody mad, I tell you.
I did a similar persuasion exercise at my last place. Open source is taking a hold, but moving very slowly. It is all about saving money and I think a lot of the managers are finally getting convinced about running Linux server rather Sun Solaris boxes. It is just too bad I had leave to see the horizon. As for me I think that I will have to look beyond core J2EE development maybe go back to even RMI and Applet programming which would be horrible just to make ends meet.
Well hang on to horses yet. What goes around usually comes back around at some point in the future. Eventually the developers will become the senior developers, and the senior developers become the project leaders and lead architects. So remember this depressing experience and learn from it, treat it like pinch of salt.
Hey! May be we can swap leads off-line. What do you think?
Yeh, why not? No problems. -- Peter Pilgrim ServerSide Java Specialist My on-line resume and for interview videos about myself, J2EE Open Source, Struts and Expresso. || \\===> `` http://www.xenonsoft.demon.co.uk/no-it-striker.html '' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
