Re: php vs cold fusion

Joe, Just send all of those turned down employers to http://mojolin.com, I could use the traffic! Dan On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Joe Stump wrote: > Odd - I have to turn down job offers on almost a daily basis for high level, > high paying PHP jobs. If you look in dice.com (the place I found my current > job) you will find AT LEAST 100 jobs with a search for "PHP MySQL". > > Contract work just keeps pouring in as well - it's not the marketing behind > PHP it's how you market yourself. Everyone's dream job is attainable - you just > need to work at it (I'm 20 and working at a large .com using PHP/Linux/MySQL > and making about 2x what my parents do ... so don't say they aren't out there) > > So brush up your resume and hit the streets! I rank high for "PHP resume" and > "MySQL resume" on altavista and a few others and *actually* get hits to my > resume from there! > > If you want I can make a mailing list for all the jobs I've been turning down > :O) > > --Joe > > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 03:25:30PM -0800, Michael Collins wrote: > > At 5:53 PM -0500 10/30/00, Kulkarni, Vikram wrote: > > >It is the old chicken-and-egg problem. Programmers aren't getting trained > > >in PHP because there are no jobs; and there are no jobs..... > > > > I have also headed into this difficulty getting started in PHP. I > > have been to trade shows where no vendor is looking for PHP or even > > has heard of it. Almost all are looking for ASP first, then Java, > > C++, maybe CF but no mention of PHP. Part of the problem is there is > > no marketing engine behind PHP that works to promote PHP technology. > > > > Michael > > -- > > > > _/ _/ _/ _/ Michael Collins > > _/ _/ _/ Equinox Enterprises > > _/ _/ Seattle, WA, USA > > _/ mcollins206@home.com > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > ================================================================================ > = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com > http://www.miester.org = > ================================================================================ > "Real programmers don't comment their code. > It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >