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Nish!
Things in the US still good for good programmers like you. Of course companies are very careful right now in who they offer a job.
In the jobs posted companies are not offering relocation or H1-B visas, even friends of mine with TN visas have problems finding jobs.
Anway, somebody like you won't have a problem getting a job in the US. However, would you like to wait for 3+ months for your H1B, while doing paper work and then when you work for the company to know the you cannot move companies?
Oh! When dotcoms were going down and closing doors, many, many H1B with wifes and kids had to leave their houses and cars in 10 days to go back to their countries. In 10 days is very difficult to sell a house, 2 cars and pull your kids out of their school.
Just something for you to think about it!
Al
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Thanks Albert,
It's not an American craze or anything with me. If I could get similar conditions here in Trivandrum, I'd be happy to live the rest of my life locked in a room. But I want fast computers, big monitors, fast internet access, complete legal software. All this is highly improbable in India 
Nish
Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :-
http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/
Feel free to make your comments.
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Really?
That's surprising! Is because is more expensive? Or they don't sell them?
What internet access do you have there? T1, T3, DSL, cable modem or 56K dial up?
I love programming, but I couldn't actually be happy lock up in a room!!
I like the wonderful weather of Southern California 
Al
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Albert Pascual wrote:
That's surprising! Is because is more expensive? Or they don't sell them?
Both. India does not have even 25% of America's bandwidth 
And what we have is very very expensive.
Nish
Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :-
http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/
Feel free to make your comments.
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hey nish
im also heading out to the states at the end of the year ... hopefully not to work too much (have a project i want to sell out there if i can) but work if i have to ... how have you gone about applying for stuff or are just at the 'thinking about it' stage?
"... and so i said to him ... if it can't dance and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
8028finder.com
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Hello Lauren,
Last October [2001], my company tried to send me out for a couple of months on a Business Visa. It was for the initial design and system study of a new project. Maybe October was a bad time to apply for a Visa, because of the Sep 11 attacks. My Visa application was rejected. I was quite disappointed as you might expect. Anyway Business Visas are not easy to get. I think the work-permit Visa [H1B] is a safer option.
Regards
Nish
p.s. I have not applied directly to an US company for a job. I have sent my resume to one company though. A few people have directly offered me contract jobs. But none of them ever made any solid or safe offers. I mean, I can't risk simply going there only to have to return 2 months later and then I'll be unemployed here as well.
The posting stats are now in PDF:-
http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/
Feel free to make your comments.
Updated - May 04th, Saturday
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ya i am also thinking on the same line can u pls suggest me , how should i proceed , i have 3 yrs exp with VC++....
--- Subodh
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At present, I think it is best to stick to your job and get as much experience as possible together with the certified courses. Moving to the States or UK is not looking that good.
They say it is picking up but I can not see that at present as I have a lot of working experience and just been made redundant. I have been applying but no response so far.
np
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Hi,
I have a full-time job developing software. In my spare time I have developed several programs that, in my humble opinion, have some commercial value. I would like to sell these programs on the internet but have no clue how to start. I know of companies like DigitalRiver that sell the software for you.
Do you guys have any experience selling your own software. Do you actually sell copies or is it not worth your time. Do you sell the software yourself or do you use a third party.
Looking very much forward to your reactions. Any reaction is welcome, I am looking for a broad discussion.
Woody
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Some good information at this site. It isnt a plug or anything. I just think it is a decent site. Perhaps in a few years when i have more exerience..
http://www.asp-shareware.org
Mark A
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My husband & I have been trying to find jobs in Raleigh, NC. The job search has come to a halt since there is nothing. He has a master's in Comp Sci, and I have my bachelor's in Comp Sci. He is a genius, programmed in Java, C, VC++, and OpenGL. I "get by", programmed in Ada (yeah, we're defense contractors) and VC++. We are tired of paying someone else's mortgage and wish to return to the South. It just looks so bleak. I am getting to the point where I think we ought to just concede and buy a house in NOWHEREsville. What do you think? Am I overreacting? Impatient?
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Where are you at currently? I'm in Virginia, near DC, and there are many defense contractor positions open.
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I'm in southern MD (Patuxent River) working for a defense contractor. We know we're good as long as we stay here, but we aren't interested in doing that.
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HI, me and my girl friend are thinking of moving San Francisco
next year or so. I was wondering if anyone knows how the job market
is in the city. I want to work with Visual C++ doing financial
applications, either client/GUI or server programmer is fine.
We wants to live in the city and I don't like to commute
so are there any programming jobs in the city or are they all
located outside in boring Silicon Valley?
Thanks, Patric
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MellowmanNYC wrote:
I want to work with Visual C++ doing financial
applications, either client/GUI or server programmer is fine.
We wants to live in the city and I don't like to commute
You shouldnt have a problem. Employers are scrambling to create jobs like this!!
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I'm a student and I'm doing my project:
Build a Certification Authority
Can you give me some informations, links, tutorials, email, which related to this problem ?
Thanks!
Hung Son
A Vietnamese student
i-g.hypermart.net
dlhson2001@yahoo.com
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I've been doing C++ my whole career, including my share of very low-level stuff (e.g. I used to work at Microsoft, where one product I worked on in the early '90s was the Visual C++ debugger). I still love C++, but I am also coming to absolutely adore C# and .NET -- they just make it so ridiculously easy to do cool stuff.
I'm interested in finding a job doing client-side C#/.NET stuff using Windows Forms (server-side doesn't interest me much). I think probably in five years or so, after .NET has really taken hold, this will be easy to find; but for now, even if I could find ANY client-side .NET work, it would most likely be the kind of stuff that used to be done in VB, e.g. vertical-market software for filling out forms, accessing databases, etc. I'm more interested in working on the kind of stuff that's traditionally done in C++, such as shrinkwrap applications and tools.
Is anyone out there aware of companies doing interesting work using client-side .NET? I'm in Burlingame CA, so I'm looking as far north as S.F. and as far south as Palo Alto.
Any suggestions of web sites I should look at to try to find such companies? None turned up on hotjobs or Monster -- I want to take a different tack: Instead of going to job-search web sites and looking for .NET, I think maybe I should go to .NET web sites and search for jobs. E.g. I plan to check places like gotdotnet.com and msdn.microsoft.com to see if there are lists of companies working with .NET.
Mike Morearty
mike@morearty.com
http://www.morearty.com
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As you mentioned, I suspect the pickings will be slim on the job market for a while, due both to how new the product is and the current tight tech market. However, I think there was actually one possible solution embedded within your question.
Mike Morearty wrote:
I'm more interested in working on the kind of stuff that's traditionally done in C++, such as shrinkwrap applications and tools.
Instead of looking for another 9 to 5, why not spend your spare time figuring out what types of shrinkwrap tools you could put together for .NET developers? Remember when VB first hit? People like Dan Appleman (Desaware) did well because he was early to market with VBX bolt ons, and it turned out to be a huge market. He's much better off than he would have been had he just looked for a job writing code in the (then) new VB environment.
Anytime there's a paradigm shift in our development environment, there are opportunities to provide new tools to developers. While it may not be as obvious as the VBX market, I'll bet with your experience and a little creative thinking you could come up with some great shrink wrap products that you could, if nothing else, sell off your web site. If the tools are relevant & good and you're first to market, it might even make you enough to make your company your new 9 to 5.
I mean, if you're spending your spare time coding in .NET now anyway, why not write something you can sell?
Chistopher Duncan
Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
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Hello, My name is Brad Cromwell.
I'm in the process of writing a
HS I-search report for English
over a possible future career.
If someone would take the time to
answer the following questions it would
help me out tremendously! Thanks in advance. (If you would rather e-mail the interview, send to: cyrad2@fourthempire.com
Personal info:
Job Title:
Company:
Your name:
Your e-mail:
Your city/state:
If you had to explain what you do(as a computer science professional) to a fourth
grader, what would you say?
What training/schooling would you recommend taking before entering the job field?
On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest, how would you rate the job availability in your area?
What three things do you dislike about your job?
How much could I expect to make anually as a beginner in your career field?
What rewards/benifits/perks does your job have to offer?
What kind of personal, as well as professional skills, are required from you?
Which computer related jobs do you think will be sought after most in the next ten years?
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My company has merged with another bigger fish.
As a result all our database systems are being moved from Progress to Oracle.
I have the option of free Oracle training (providing I stay for two years) but I'm not sure what to do... I guess that means no pay rises for two years! 
What is the jobs market like for Oracle programmers vs Progress? (particularly in the UK)
I can choose to specialise my training in Finance, HR or DBA. Which is likely to provide the most job demand and money?!
Any thoughts welcome...
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The Obliterator
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Obliterator wrote:
What is the jobs market like for Oracle programmers vs Progress?
Well, I'm not a DB guy myself, but from what I've seen in America, Oracle is pretty high demand & good pay, particularly for DBAs. I don't hear much about Progress in comparison.
I don't know what their presence is in the UK, but maybe that'll help give you at least a little bit of an indication...
Chistopher Duncan
Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
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Yeah I tend to agree, my research seems to show Oracle as offering more availability. Certainly the DBA does seem to be the most highly paid, I guess I'll have to look into the learning curves.
Anything bad about Oracle I should know anyone???? 
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The Obliterator
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If you want to stay, I say train yourself on Oracle to become a DBA. You can download developer editions of their database software for free. At least that way if you want to leave you can leave without being penalized. Or figure out how much that training costs, so if you do leave you know exactly how much you're "going to owe them".
Good Luck!
Andy Gaskell, MCSD MCDBA
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Hi All,
Not sure if this is the right place for this question but here goes. I am planning to travel to Australlia and New Zealand in 6 months time. I plan to live and work there for a year. Could anyone living/working in these countries tell me what the current state of the Jobs market is like for contract developers. I have more than 7 years experience in building distribute apps using SQL2K/ASP/VB/COM+.
Cheers for any feedback
Adrian
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AdrianD wrote:
Could anyone living/working in these countries tell me what the current state of the Jobs market is like for contract developers.
Adrian, if you look at the jobs advertised it looks pretty good. The reality is not quite as rosey. I have been out of work since 8th November last year and have only got 2 interviews which I made the short list and then rejected.
They seem to want twice the skillset you have no matter how many skills you have.
I have been looking for permanent positions not contract. There seems to be less contract work available than permanent. Remember that you have to charge 10% on top of standard rates to cover the GST here in Australia.
Michael Martin
Australia
mjm68@tpg.com.au
"Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace"
- Victor Stone
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