Thanks Saifi. The way I see it, since the time our awesome profession has existed, there has only been one common requirement for a technology professional - skills.
Technologies come and go, approaches come and go, companies come and go - as long as you have strong fundamentals and the will to keep your skills sharp, no downturn is going to stop you. Your mentality in a downturn should be default positive. You cannot go through your degree, internships & projects thinking your industry is going to abandon you. That's not the case, far from it. I graduated in about as bad a time as you can imagine - 2001, in New York. With the dot-com bust and 9/11 - big corporations were revoking job offers like water in a famine. While it was disappointing to see companies not keep their commitments, I remained positive and kept myself at the edge of the technology curve. I also leveraged the friend network around me. One thing in my favor was that New York always had something happening, so about 4 months before graduating, I was already working full-time (at night because I had to deal with Australians and study/sleep in the mornings). It's 2009 now, and I have absolutely no regrets. So, keep getting to the other side of the river, breathe, and pay no attention to the water around you. It may slow your progress, but you'll get to the other side! Cheers, Zubin. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Saifi Khan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, madarapu mahesh wrote: > > > hai, > > > > this is mahesh > > > > iam doing my project work in MCA after complete my MCA(in april complete > this), what am do why because now s\w is down position. > > > > please give me any suggitions or oppurtunity. > > > > plz give me the replay > > maheshChandra > > > > > > Dear Mahesh: > > You have touched on a point, which would be of concern for many > people. > > i'd request Zubin, Arun, Suman Karthik, KoPoS, Sandip, Narender > and Satish among others to share their thoughts and what > steps should somebody passing out in yr 2009 should do. > > All member observations and suggestions are very much welcome. > > thanks > Saifi. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
