Moving into Oracle Developer 2000

From: Mark Wallace <mnews_at_friarman.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:36:39 -0000
Message-ID: <8amm02$o0a$1@gxsn.com>

I was wondering what comments or thoughts anyone may have on my current situation.

I have been an application developer for the last 9 years on a database called 'Universe'. In the last 2 years I have decided from a career point-of-view (and technically challenging p-o-v) I was not going anywhere. The database is not being further developed and there is not real progress in terms of the software.
So about a year ago I started cross training myself into Oracle. I have since completed most of the courses that I felt would give me what I need. This being a definite career path, money and mostly for me a very technically interesting future. (what with Oracle 8i, java etc...) Anyway I have since studied
SQL,
PL/SQL

Developer 2000, forms I  (ver 5)
Developer 2000, forms II  (ver 6)
Developer 2000, Reports  (ver 2.5)

I have also worked a lot with Visual Basic and have done a little programming with JAVA.

I feel that this gives me a very good grounding in Oracle and for the development that I would like to do in the future. I am now based in London and would appreciate suggestions on what the best way would be to get into a job where I can gain the experience I need to become a proficient Oracle / Developer 2000 programmer. All the jobs that I look at seem to have a minimum requirement of 2 years Oracle experience.
This almost puts me back to the days when I was first looking for a job, in that you can not get a job because you have not experience but you can't get experience because you can't get a job. A typical catch22.
Even though I have many years development experience and I have all the required training this does not seem to help when it actually comes to looking for a job.

I am almost at my wits end. As I said any suggestions on how to resolve this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Mark Received on Tue Mar 14 2000 - 18:36:39 CST