Re: Getting that first job

Hi Andrew,

    Since you are posting from erols.com I presume you are located in the Northeastern United States. If I were you I would start contacting the Human Resources departments in the larger organizations in your area. Also contact every firm in the yellow pages that claims to provide contract programming and computer consulting services. What you are looking for is an entry level Developer's job.

    When you get one it won't pay too well, but the important thing is get a year or two of paid experience so that you can either get a very handsome increase or move on to greener pastures.

    In my opinion you should hold out for a developer's job and not try to go the Help Desk route.

    regards

Jerry Gitomer

cathexis_at_erols.com wrote in message <36d213ea.9189694_at_news.erols.com>...
>Dear Ng,
>
> Well, now that I've finished some classes in Oracle( 7.3, Dev. 2000 Forms
4.5 and Reports
>2.5) the question is what sort of jobs should I hope, or expect, to get?
> There seem to be 3 levels of jobs out there: Help desk, Developers and
DBA. Reality tells me
>not to look for the DBA jobs. If know anything, I know what I don't know
and I believe DBA requires
>lots of on the job exper. and more.
> So that leaves Help Desk and Developer. My goal is DBA with a medium to
large firm, by Full
>time or contract. But what about Help Desk? What I mean is this: How likely
is it that my first job
>will be Help Desk? Also, Is the Help Desk to Developer to DBA path
realistic? Will I end up "stuck"
>at Help Desk? Or should I hold out for a Developer position?
> By the way, I should say that I have no job exper. in databasing. Just
school work and P.O.
>8/ Dev. 2000 trial versions on my home box. This is a career switch for me.
I expect that if I'm a
>newbie I may be paid like a newbie, but I want to follow the career path
that will put me the surest
>way to my goals.
> Time for more questions? When do I stop only studying and take a job when
the offer comes?
>That is, I also took courses in C/C++ and Visual Basic. Should I really try
to be an expert in
>everything? And what about java? Should I go back to square 1 and learn
some java? I know you can
>never learn too much, but sooner or later I need real world exper. if I'm
to go anywhere?
> A lot of questions, I know. But I've asked for and gotten great help here
before. I respect
>you guys and would welcome your opinions one and all. My thanks in advance,
>
> Andrew
Received on Thu Feb 25 1999 - 14:08:54 CST