[Red Jones]

you make a lot of sense in your advice in 186; I'm opposed radically to h1b, but we do have to recognize that change is part of the landscape now. People should also know that it's very hard to change when you've got all these h1b's swamping the market in every field. Lots of people have re-tooled themselves for a good skill and found no opportunity in it.

[eno_]

Lots of people have re-tooled themselves for a good skill and found no opportunity in it. Beware of 2nd and 3rd tier college "professional" programs. An easy way to burn $5k on your way to yesterdays technology. Read Slashdot and GotDotNet. Linux/Apache/Python and .NET are the two future technologies, though you might be able to make a go of it with the Cocoa stuff on OS X. I hear its good but have no experience myself (and I used to be one of the world's experts on Mac programming - back in the days even before MacApp... I just wish I could target which brain cells to kill when drinking).

[eno_]

Lots of people have re-tooled themselves for a good skill and found no opportunity in it. Beware of 2nd and 3rd tier college "professional" programs. An easy way to burn $5k on your way to yesterdays technology. Read Slashdot and GotDotNet. Linux/Apache/Python and .NET are the two future technologies, though you might be able to make a go of it with the Cocoa stuff on OS X. I hear its good but have no experience myself (and I used to be one of the world's experts on Mac programming - back in the days even before MacApp... I just wish I could target which brain cells to kill when drinking).