I've seen several Cold Fusion telecommute projects lately. Have you thought about that? Also, I get email almost daily from UPS looking for Cold Fusion programmers. Not sure if they have office in your area, but you could check.
For someone as sharp as you are, .Net shouldn't be that hard to learn. Download the free 160 trial of Visual Studio from Microsoft's site and give it a whirl. On 6/6/06, Russel Madere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Sorry to hear that... how long is the commute? > > 53 miles which on a good day takes an hour. Throw in a breakdown or > accident, double that. If I leave 5 minutes later than usual, add 15 > minutes. The worse part is the gas price. I only get 16 miles to the gallon > in my truck and the wife's car has 200,000 miles. > > >.NET is the way to go for job security. > > I'm seeing that, but lack the time and cash to learn it. I'm hoping to find > an employer who will send me to some training. > > >What kind of skills do you have in networking? > > I have always been an IS generalist with networking and PC support. I have > done LAN/WAN design, can subnet with a little refreshing, configured and > administer firewalls (FW-1 and a Linux packet filtering thing I wrote in PERL > 10 years ago) and can run Cat-5 cables. I just don't know how to punch down > cables in a block. I knew Cisco IOS on a Catalyst 2924 switch, but no router > work. I have done desktop support as an ancillary job requirement for 8 > years now and directly for 5 years before that. > > > What about programming > >experience besides CF? > > I'de be an excellent FORTRAN programmer with a little refresher time. I can > also handle COBOL, but never programmed directly in it. I haven't touched > either in 10 years. I know ASP Classic to get by and PHP to muddle my way > through. It's all procedural, so I can handle it. I can muddle through PERL > and have created a few applications by modifying someone else's code to fit > my needs. I also wrote C-Shell scripts many years ago. > > I am self taught on some minor C++ and Java. I just haven't done much UI > design since most of my non-web proramming work was on mainframes and > computers (not PCs the big guys). > > > > >- Matt > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:208197 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
