[Kid Shelleen]

>>Just curious. how does someone get experience in coding (or anything else) if no one will give them their first job in that field? <<

Try and get your foot in the door as a tester or system integrator. Once you get hired in by a company take advantage of the corporate training and continuing education programs.

I found a good niche writing device drivers in “C” because at the time not many hardware engineers wanted to write code and not many software engineers understood hardware. I learned a lot of engineering by mixing with people of different skill sets. The great thing about high tech is there’s always something new to learn, tools, languages, protocols, etc, etc.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

Thank you all for your replies and the info. Sorry to say, it’s all over my head. :) i was not asking specifically about IT stuff, i was referring in general to all the job ads that say “experience required.”