In which way should I put my career on right path working from a small company and little known technologies?
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Hello everyone, Before I start let me tell you something about myself "I am a Day Dreamer!!!" I am a poor programmer from kinda small IT company from India, want to learn new technologies and update myself with the latest trends in IT. Have wasted almost 2 year in this company working on .Net framework 2.5 and 3.0(joined as a fresher) working on Windows mobile CE and 6.0 platform and before making the switch, want to learn more, but my company doesn't offer me that luxury. My question is what should I do now to rectify my mistakes and put my career on right path. I am really very much interested in windows mobile, windows 8 apps and cloud computing. Please help me with your valuable points... and also suggest me which technology should I follow???
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Answer:
Work out what is wrong with the company's marketing. - Does it sell the wrong thing? - Does it aim at the wrong people? - Is it bad at communicating successfully? Become skilled at technology marketing and you can pick and choose the technologies you work with. Have fun.
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Change your perspective from "India only your experience does matter not the knowledge you do have". This may be true at large companies, but founders of small companies prefer highly versatile people and pay less attention to the so-called experience. Do you have 5 years of experience or 5 times of 1 year experience? That is the question smart company founders ask. Learning is not a luxury. All the information you need is now free. I previously spent thousands of dollars on books from Microsoft (things like Resource Kit), but now most of that information is available for free. Want to learn Win 8 development? Go to http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com, for example. Although, I will disagree with Andrei that technology does not matter. You can become a specialist in something and get paid a lot of money for being an expert. One technology that I would suggest is Apex on http://Salesforce.com. It is syntactically similar to Java and C#, but will force you to become a much better developer because of platform constrants. I had to re-learn programming when I decided to develop in Apex. Another technology is Drupal and its associated shopping carts like Drupal Commerce and Ubercart. As it matures, it is becoming a versatile platform for ecommerce development.
Leonid S. Knyshov
Well I was asked to answer this, so here goes: your question has many contradictions, that I don't really understand. First of all, if you are an aspiring developer, then the time spent developing is never wasted time. You're interested in Windows 8 apps, but you consider .NET coding a waste of time? Does not compute for me. Second, remember this: No company in this world will ever pay you to learn. No one. From the smallest company in this world up until Google, nobody will pay you to learn. They only pay you to work on what they need, for the company. Whatever learning you want to do, you do it in your spare time. As an aspiring developer, you also should spend at least 80% of your spare time learning. No computer games, no movies, nothing - just learning. And when you're done, learn some more. Third, what is this switch? What do you want to switch to? As a developer, no matter what you switch to, it won't get easier, ever - stop dreaming about an easier job and life, as a developer that is not going to happen. Development is a path for seriously stubborn people, that are passionate about creating software. Fourth, the last question about the technologies is plain wrong, I already explained why here:
Andrei Cristof
From my experience, mobile development skills are EXTREMELY marketable. That being said, Android and iPhone / iPad (Objective-C, etc) skills are more marketable than Windows Mobile, but having skills in any mobile technology is great. If that's something you enjoy, then I encourage you to develop some apps on your own time. Android offers a great platform to do so - the requirements aren't as rigid to get your app published, or so I'm told, as Apple, so you can get apps out there and get feedback on them. I have clients who will hire mobile programmers with NO professional mobile experience - these are guys who are professional developers, and learned all their mobile skills on their own. And let's face it, smartphones and tablets aren't going away. Mobile is here to stay in one form or another, so I see it as a great career move, if you enjoy it.
Elias Cobb
You have basically three options. Write each of these on a paper and evaluate them on merit, viability vise. - Change your profession, move to another professional job that offers you the type of work you want to do - Change your environment, move to another city/country that offers you a better job in your profession - Move to higher education See what your situation and resources allow you to do.
Imad Hashmi
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