Hello, fellow Linuxers. I'd like your advice regarding a job change.
My company has been acquired. There is a chance that my boss won't stay around, and if so, I'm not going to stay around, either - because the chances are that the business will become yet-another- dotnet-based-web-portal.
I'm basically a PHP programmer, though in the past two years I've been doing more integration work and problem solving than any web development (being the only one except our sysadmin who is not afraid of shell scripts). Now, this merger gives me a unique opportunity - I've been in my current company for 6 years, so I'm due a lot of compensation should I quit (quitting after an acquisition is considered being laid off), meaning I can basically keep my standard of living for at least 6 months without actually working.
I can use these 6 months to develop my skills in some other area of programming, and maybe even get some experience by participating in an open source project of some kind. What I'd like your advice on is - what directions are popular, have high demand, and can accommodate a programmer with lots of general experience, but not particular (other than the web)? Preferably ones that don't enslave people (no golden cages for the chance of becoming a millionaire).
Needless to say, I'm talking about Linux-oriented (or at least Unix) jobs here, I'm not looking to change to .Net, I don't even have a Windows box available at home.
My CV in a nutshell: B.Sc. from 1989, military service doing application programming in environments that no longer exist, until 1994, then some tech support until 1996-7, and since then I've done web programming, at first in Java, then in PHP, though I did a refresher course in Java recently (but never got around to writing anything in it).
Any advice will be appreciated. Sneers and jeers will not. :) Herouth ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
