Re: Re: getting a LAMP job in this economy

I had previously been hired by a CBS affiliate/sporting news provider and 80% of the reason was my knowledge of PHP. Although I am no longer with that job, I found it to be extremely valuable for my resume. While you won't find PHP on their main website (they use Vignette Story Server and Oracle), a large chunk of backend code and system management utilities, including a trouble ticket system, were written with PHP. Quoting Mike Frazer <mike@invertedmind.com>: > Just got a job as a PHP Programmer, actually. Kinda rare in this area, I > guess it was a matter of being in the right place at the right time with > the > right skills. I've been hired twice in the past based at least in part on > my PHP skills, as well. > > Mike > > > > "Vincent Stoessel" <vincent@xaymaca.com> wrote in message > news:3C5081FA.6070405@xaymaca.com... > > On another list that I am on someone made this very bold > > statement: > > > > "I've seen a lot of jobs for ColdFusion & Oracle or MS SQL server > > experience combinations. Don't let anyone fool you, PHP/MySQL is not > > going to land you a job [;)] " > > > > now, as someone that was making avery good living doing Linux based > > web application development last year and now among the jobless I am > beginning > > to question the validity of having all of my eggs in the LAMP (linux > apache mysql php) > > basket. I just recently built a NT4 to do some win based development on. > I still have > > not installed any development enviroment cause it just feels so alien. > Has > anyone else > > out there feeling the pressure of going to the win32 side to pay the > bills. > > Thoughts? > > > > > > -- > > Vincent Stoessel vincent@xaymaca.com > > Linux and Java Application Developer > > (301) 362-1750 > > AIM, MSN: xaymaca2020 , Yahoo Messenger: vks_jamaica > > > > > > -- > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through CDM Sports Webmail.