On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:43:35AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Obviously, you can't "decide" that you're interested in something... You > need to convince employers that you have one or more of (with bonus points if > you have more than one of them): > > 1. Burning desire (a passion) for the topic > 2. Better than average knowledge in the topic > 3. Better than average experience in the topic
I don't know if that's true or not. IMHO you decide what you want to do in life and do it. Your decision may be affected by other concerns such as making a living, schools for your family, etc., so it's not just a technical decision. Sometimes as you've said, there are no jobs IN ISRAEL for certain skills. Or it may be a case of not knowing where to find them. For example, there have been Macintosh jobs here and there still are. If they are open, is another question, but the Hebrew version of the Macintosh operating system was developed here until around 2000, when it was dropped. There are two Hebrew supporting Macintosh word processing programs, one was Nisus, which was availble when I started to care about such things, in 1991, and a descendent of it is still around. They are based in California. There is also Melel, which is based in Tel Aviv. If you did not know about them, you would have never approached them. There is also a lot of "offshoring" done here, but most companies keep it quiet. I don't know you, except for your approximate age and that you want to be an employee (both of which were recently posted), but if you really want to get a job doing something you like, you may have to spend a few years in Silicon Valley. You then make the contacts to go work for a start up and "offshore" yourself. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= 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]
