Gary, First of all I am in a fulltime job, secondly I am well aware that the jobs aren't just listed in one place. However, my point is that lets say my son decides to follow in my foot steps and wants to learn coldfusion and he looks at the job market to see what is around, now as the jobs are not listed then he says how can I earn any money to survive, I tell him that there are jobs out there but I can't prove that they are!
So instead of learning coldfusion as the job market is very slim, he moves into java or .Net as this is where all the jobs are. That's my point and not where to find them!! When I was looking for work in the I.T. sector as a developer of coldfusion I looked at the market and registered with every agency here in Victoria. I then posted into cfjobs and cfaussie looking for work and I was shocked to see that the amount of job offers that came back was very poor, and its what you see when your really are looking that leaves the bad taste in your mouth. Now if the jobs are out there then how about they be advertised for maximum exposure instead of ringing one or two developers who can't take the work? Let it go out and penetrate the rest of the coldfusion community, there are many developers out there that I know that no longer do CF work and will not return to it, no matter what you say to them about how good CF is, their response will be that the market is not good enough to have a career in. Again the jobs are circulating in a small circle to developers that are already developing in CF, which makes it harder for new blood to come along and pick up CF (and that is were the future will be, in the new blood) and run a career with it, and this is why I will stand by and say that CF will not survive unless the attitude of Macromedia changes and starts pushing the technology in Australia. Thus creating jobs that will make sure that the language will survive, and creating a path that others can safely say yes that technology has a future and I can make a career path out of it. The point I am making is not whether I can keep developing in CF, but if the work grows to include the option of people wanting to learn the product. --- 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/
