I'm now getting paid by someone else to do PHP (and w/e else). No more billing! No more sweeping! No more hardware tickets!
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dalecosp "God doesn't play dice." --- Einstein "Perl is hardly a paragon of beautiful syntax." --- Weedpacket
And I'm over 10 months into my first "real" programming job (having been on the QA side of things for a couple decades then a couple years of free-lancing (and being lousy at sales ).
Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be." ~ from Nation, by Terry Pratchett
"But the main reason that any programmer learning any new language thinks the new language is SO much better than the old one is because he’s a better programmer now!" ~ http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/...ck_to_p_1.html
Do you like it? I find myself planning to start a company (alone at first). At 39, people look at me like I'm a dinosaur in a tutu when I apply for developer jobs and they are not willing to pay for the experience. I mean, I started PHP in 1999 and coding generally in 1983. Worth nothing in France. So I decided to fly on my own at the end of august. I have the customers and I have my own projects!
"Our ASP will blot out the sun!"
"Then we will PHP in the shade"
Well, Bunkermaster ... my problem was that I was smart enough to fix things, write code, and personable enough to convince some people that I was worth paying.
But I knew nothing about marketing, customer retention (except the "being nice" and "fixing things" part), hiring, and about a million other things a (typically) successful business depends on having in order to be competitive.
(And, at 45, I have to laugh about the "dinosaur in a tutu" thing. If my boss were any younger, he'd probably think the same thing. But he has about 3 decades more than I do ;-)
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dalecosp "God doesn't play dice." --- Einstein "Perl is hardly a paragon of beautiful syntax." --- Weedpacket
Guess you too are familiar with the "I can't seriously consider putting you under the supervision of a project manager with 2 years experience... You'd eat him up" line then. What saddens me is that it will only get worse with time.
"Our ASP will blot out the sun!"
"Then we will PHP in the shade"
Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be." ~ from Nation, by Terry Pratchett
"But the main reason that any programmer learning any new language thinks the new language is SO much better than the old one is because he’s a better programmer now!" ~ http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/...ck_to_p_1.html
/!!\ mysql_ is deprecated --- don't use it! Tell your hosting company you will switch if they don't upgrade!/!!!\ ereg() is deprecated --- don't use it!
dalecosp "God doesn't play dice." --- Einstein "Perl is hardly a paragon of beautiful syntax." --- Weedpacket
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