changed topic: Oracle DBA in Tokyo

"Daniel Holgate" <danielholgate_at_yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:2b829164.0211281748.20083800_at_posting.google.com...
> "Dr DOOM" <blah_at_blah.com> wrote
> >
> > If you finished your degree and you were then 24 or 25, would you say
that's
> > too old for a first IT job?
> >
> > gah..I've done this course (IT diploma in network engineering from TAFE)
and
> > can get one years worth of cross-over credit on a degree. The degree
goes
> > for 3 years. So instead of having to do 3 years, I'd be able to do it in
2
> > years.
> >
> > Problem is, I'm currently 22....do you guys think this is too old?
>
> Absolutely not - I graduated from uni when I was 26 after 8 years of
> changing courses, getting kicked out etc. And that was a B.A in Asian
> History / Japanese language, not IT .. but I've now been working as a
> Oracle DBA in Tokyo for 4 years.
>

*That* is interesting. Since we hear nothing but bad news about Japanese Economy over the past 10 years,
how is the situation in IT now ?
In other words: how did you manage to get a job in Japan - as a foreigner, I assume
You are not Japanese ?

I am asking this because I spent some months studying in Japan 10 years ago ...

Yours,
Jan Received on Fri Nov 29 2002 - 02:01:19 CST