I feel it's time to plug a book again. If you want to get involved higher up in the IT work food chain I think an essential skill to get (before another programming language) is analysis and requirements gathering so that business people can tell you in english what they want to achieve - skills in a particular industry also help in this regard. Then you can solve business problems directly instead of solving programming problems for others solving business problems. Read "Practical Software Requirements" by Kovitz, publisher Manning Press for an excellent start on this.
Robin "Andrew Dickinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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/
