Sorry to p*ss on you bonfire Andrew but I agree with Scott, CFJOBS is not the place to look. As I said, its a fine market here in Brisbane for CF jobs and Australia is doing very well all over. The main thing I find is I am not competing in such a big pool. That makes it much better to sell yourself. Firstly you get the chance as normally you get an interview. Secondly you able to sell yourself on your strengths.
As a Pommy B*st*rd here in Australia, all I can say is lighten up its cool here the markets good, if you end up with a week or two between contracts (Very unlikely!) go to the beach, its sunny all year round in QLD! Chicky! you guys call us poms the winging B*st*rds! LOL GC On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:38:21 +1100, Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robin, > > In your own words you have answered the point:-) > > "Most of the partners seem to be very busy at present" > > And why are they busy, because the jobs that do get advertised don't get > filled as easy, and the partners are busy because there is no one else > learning coldfusion to have these places filled... And how many jobs have > been very short term roles, what does this say to someone who needs to make > a living, what it says to me is don't learn coldfusion as you will not be > able to have a career out of it, and look elsewhere. > > Look don't get me wrong, I have been around since Coldfusion V3.0 and I have > seen the job market dwindle down to nothing, and every know and then a job > gets posted, but that job would attract every coldfusion developer needing > work. > > But for anyone who wants a career, at the moment coldfusion is not the way > to go unless your lucky enough to find a fulltime position. I love cf for > its ease of use and rapid development but lets face reality here, you can > defend the jobs as being there, but they are not. CF Jobs has posted a > majority of very short term contracts and very little fulltime roles, and as > a developer with a family and who needs to eat and pay the mortgage, how to > you survive between contracts that might be months apart due to others in > the market with the same problem. > > And again until the job market really swings to FULL TIME employment this is > the problem with CF, and I did say it's a catch 22 because to get the jobs > out there more business and companies need to look at coldfusion more and > that is where Macromedia has to take action. > > No jobs means no work, no work means not prospect of growth. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin > Hilliard > Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:55 AM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Macromedia gives up on the server market in > Australia and walks away. > > Andrew Scott wrote: > > > Sean, > > > > It is all catch 22, if there are no jobs the market suffers. As far as > jobs > > goes I stated to you that the ASP, .Net, and java jobs are increasing in > > Australia and Coldfusion is not. > > But why do you say that? I haven't seen cfjobs this busy before. When > Mike said the jobs were dissapearing at NSW CFUG there seemed to be > general disagreement from the rest of the room. RocketBoots is short of > suitable ColdFusion candidates for the jobs we're trying to place. Most > of the partners seem to be very busy at present. > > > No jobs means moving to the flavour that has the work, ASP and .Net in > > Australia is increasing so people learn this and nothing else. > > ASP.NET has come from nothing to something over the last few years, so I > guess its growth is more noticable than ColdFusion. What about the > Google results - ColdFusion is increasing just as quickly as .NET in > Australia and globally. > > Robin > http://www.rocketboots.com.au > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
