Hey, Sacha!
I admire your perspective when it comes to work. I also like your idea of
working on something that will be for the general good of the people. See,
the Asia Pacific College-SuSE Philippines teamwork will be putting up a SuSE
Research lab here at APC in about 2-3 months time. Why not talk to Raul and
go on from there... :)
Anyway, ala namang mawawala kung kakausapin mo si Raul, diba?
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sacha Chua
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 3:54 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [plug] (OT) When applying for a job.....
>
>
> 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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