[Sussex] An odd question....

[Gareth ABLETT]

Geoff Wrote:
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One thing is i'm hoping that more goverment organisations swap to linux or
unbix for there servers
for php to come a wanted task a little more not sure if and when that might
happend but fingers
crossed.

On the other hand the only programming language i know enough of to get
employed is Delphi
and I havent used that for a while. Although i'm doing some work in it now
trying to rember stuff.

Gareth Ablett

> Gareth wrote:
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> >Hi
> >
> >i'd just like to tell ya my experiance, I have 1 years experiance in
> >doing PHP/XHTML/CSS/MYSQL  with a lot of nkoledge of the web tools etc.
> >I wen to college for 2 years and did one year of a HND (i found this to
> >be to easy and was not computer orinated enough.). after getting that
> >job when i left i was made redundant a year later.
> >
> >no i am finding it real hard to get a job in the same area of expertice.
> >(this is largly cos of my location probaly) but my point is with a
> >deegree i dont know but its not easy getting work these days as there is
> >way more ppl wanting the jobs then before.
>
> Gareth,
>
> A couple of things:
>
> 1\
> Yes your location is a big part of your problem.
>
> 2\
> Web developers jobs in particular are a _bad_ part of the market to be in
> right now.  Web development is an area where a very large number of people
> were employed a few years ago - the majority of which are now unemployed,
> and looking for work.
>
> How did this come about?
>
> Easy.  In the .com boom web developers were employed left right and
center,
> they drew from a number of fields: graphic designers, programmers and
people
> with no experience at all.  The perception was this, HTML is very simple,
> web programming is simple.  What has happened over the last ten years
> however is that the content on the web has become far more complex, far
more
> interactive.  The programming skills have become more and more important
as
> we look to increasingly complex back end processing, client side scripting
> and the rise of the scemantic web (think XML - SVG, XForms, RDF, XSLT).
> This increase with complexity combined with the bursting of the .com
bubble
> has left us with with a small market for skilled programmers and skilled
> designers and a very large number of "web developers" competeing for these
> jobs.  Ultimately I imagine around 75% of people employed as "web
> developers" in the late 1990's will never work in IT again (without
> significant investment in training).  For the few jobs left you're need to
> be either a qualified/experienced graphic designer or an
> experienced/qualified programmer.  My advice, if you know how to code go
> looking for programming jobs and market yourself as a programmer, the web
is
> so ubiquitous now that those skills are just another part of a programmers
> job, "web developers" per se are a dying breed.
>
> I predict this trend will spread to the MCSE, Microsoft Certified Solution
> Providor market as well (though not to the same extent), how long will the
> small percentage of cowboys survive in a more technically rigorous market
> where there is _real_ competition?
>
>
> --
> geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk
> tealeg at member.fsf.org
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