Re: [PHP] getting a LAMP job in this economy

2002-01-25 Thread Jason G.
This has been an interesting thread, so I'll toss in my unique point of view... I have never held a full time job for anyone but myself. I find good opportunity and take advantage of it. I make decent money also. I have not marketed myself as a PHP developer, but rather as a problem finder a

Re: [PHP] getting a LAMP job in this economy

2002-01-24 Thread Erik Price
In the face of tough economics, it's difficult to hold onto one's ethics... Not to start a flame war, but I really hope that the day doesn't come that I'm forced to use a non-Unix platform for my development. For now I have this luxury. Erik On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 04:51 PM, Vin

Re: [PHP] getting a LAMP job in this economy

2002-01-24 Thread Ben Sinclair
ot;Vincent Stoessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Php General Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:51 PM Subject: [PHP] getting a LAMP job in this economy > On another list that I am on someone made this very bold > statement: > > "

Re: [PHP] getting a LAMP job in this economy

2002-01-24 Thread Richard Crawford
Heh. I got my first web development job back when pretty much anyone could hang a shingle outside their door and call themselves a web developer. My company worked in a Linux/PHP/Perl/Oracle environment. While there I learned quite a bit about Perl and PHP and connecting both of them to Orac

[PHP] getting a LAMP job in this economy

2002-01-24 Thread Vincent Stoessel
On another list that I am on someone made this very bold statement: "I've seen a lot of jobs for ColdFusion & Oracle or MS SQL server experience combinations. Don't let anyone fool you, PHP/MySQL is not going to land you a job [;)] " now, as someone that was making avery good living doing Linu