On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:01:11PM +0800, Johann Vincent Paul U. Tagle wrote:
> bothered me a bit, though -- I got some emails asking how the salary would
> be. Well, to partly answer that question: it all depends on your
> qualifications, how much you can already contribute, what trainings you'll
> need, how much you're currently earning, and also how good you are at
> negotiating when the actual job offer comes.
Perfect time for me to ask a question that's been bugging me for a while. =)
See, we'll be graduating fairly soon. I was thinking of going into the whole
academe/research thing, but since I also really love to program, the industry is
pretty tempting.
Option A - Freelancing looks interesting, but:
- I'd like to get to work with other cool programmers I could learn from. (And teach
the next batch, too!)
- I want to get to play with as many technologies as possible. I want to be doing
challenging and exciting work, not just the same old database-backed sites.. ;)
- I have a somewhat strange tool set. I've tried C++ programming in Windows (didn't
like MFC). I don't even want to touch ASP, as (a) components tend to be expensive, (b)
it doesn't offer enough advantages over PHP, (c) I don't have Windows on my laptop,
and (d) if I'm going to go for PerlScript, I may as well use Perl. =) However, I think
I can pick up new tools fairly quickly (inhaling the docs, trying it out), and most of
my recent work has been in either PHP or Java. More people look for ASP than for PHP,
I suspect.. <wry grin> Anyway, I'm way biased towards free-speech/beer stuff because
that's what I can get my hands on and play with.
- I don't know how to cost my work. I'm used to doing things for free, and since all
the tools I use are free anyway, no one needs to pay for fancy development IDEs.
In fact, I'd rather not worry about money at all, or finding contracts or whatever. So
there's option B - work for some company that'll take care of all of these things. =)
And I have to admit, Microsoft does take very good care of its developers, although
the culture/ideology's a little... <laugh>
But with a company, most of the stuff I'll get to work on will probably only be used
by a (relative) handful of people. <pout> (That's the problem with closed source and
expensive software).
So anyway, I could use a little career guidance here. =)
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