Moving into Oracle Developer 2000
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:36:39 -0000
Message-ID: <8amm02$o0a$1_at_gxsn.com>
[Quoted] 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.
[Quoted] 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
[Quoted] 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
[Quoted] 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.
[Quoted] 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 [Quoted] problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mark
Received on Wed Mar 15 2000 - 01:36:39 CET