Another CFer (from Bris) was saying to me that contractor rates in Brisbane suck, and things don't appear drastically different in the rest of the country. This got me thinking ..........
Kinda depressing for a career development point of view. I've been doing fairly low-level programming tasks in CF in this job for 18 months. (Despite the tone of that sentence, I still seriously love my job - no, I'm quite serious !). The natural step is to improve my CF programming skills, at least as soon as the company finally decides whether to purchase 5 or MX. But I look at the number of apparently highly qualified and capable programmers already out there, and the outrageous requirements for little return in those cfjob ads (like "expert programmer in CF, ASP, SQL, and ten different other things wanted for 4 weeks contract work in central northern Queensland, must pay own relocation expenses"), and think, "is it worth trying to progress?" . Perhaps I should do as my wife suggests, and study pharmacy for a medium term career change! Not that I want a change just yet, but the truism of continuous education is particularly sharp in IT. Thoughts ? Ravings ? --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
