> 1) If you are a hiring manager, what do you look for when > filing a cold fusion position? > > *I always look for someone who has a strong mind for > logical thought. Also, I will not hire someone who does > not have a relatively broad scope of knowledge. I always > want someone with a college degree (I don't care if they > majored in underwater basket-weaving) to prove they > know how to learn and that they have the ability to stick > with and finish something.
I despise this mentality... I'm _very_ good at what I do... I have the ability to learn very quickly, a broad scope of knowledge, a versatile array of well developed methodologies and techniques at my disposal in order to solve a wide range of problems, and the determination to stick with things and am ( if you give me a chance to be ) very loyal. I do not have a college degree. Almost a decade ago now I dropped out of a trade school so that I could support my family because I couldn't find a job to sustain us while I was going to school in the "computerized business management" course/department ... Since then I've struggled and scraped and I've managed to support my family -- just barely, but I defaulted on the student loans which the school told me at the time they would send back to Sally Mae because I had only been in class for a couple weeks and left before their theoretical cutoff date for the refund. Which they never did. But I have other ways of proving my abilities. Why is it that no-one considers what I've done at http://www.turnkey.to as viable proof of my abilities, my drive and my determination? Or do they assume that because I did this on my own that I won't be loyal? And if so why? Why is it that if someone polished a little CSS on a content management application that was largely designed by a team of other developers in their last job, they appear to be more qualified for a job than I am even though I built an entire cms app from scratch with no outside assistance, just because they happened to have been able to afford college? Sorry for the rant... I'm just really tired of being one of the finest _unemployed_ web / cf developers around. Isaac Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer www.turnkey.to 954-776-0046 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email server is running an evaluation copy of the MailShield anti- spam software. Please contact your email administrator if you have any questions about this message. MailShield product info: www.mailshield.com ----------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org
