Programming 325

One other thing here you poo for brains, if you do have the courage to use www.dice.com select NY and enter .NET, you'll see over 1600 companies consulting firms and companies looking for programmers in that greater metropolitan area. And if you're stupid enough to think that this has something to do with some kind of dot.com boom that was happening back in 1999 or that .Net is all about the Internet then you're an absolute *fool*. The sad thing is consulting firms and companies are so picky and will test your .Net knowledge with several .Net tests before they will even consider one for employment. One doesn't fair well on those tests, see ya, but they are desperate to find people with the .Net skill set. That MCP and now going for the MCAD has gotten and will get me through the door. I don't think I am going to make it to the MCSD as studying for and pbutting those tests are hard work. I saw one person who had to go down there four times before she could pbutt the first test. Lucky for her, the company at the time paid for the first three tests.

I have had calls for fulltime and consulting jobs from the West coast, Midwest, East coast, North and South borders, cites and states all wanting people with .Net expertise and there are junior entry level jobs too. And you'll see in a lot of the job descriptions for a vast majority of the job postings, they want you to at the very least have a MCP and if you got that or one of the higher level certifications, then you stand a much better chance of getting that job if your skill set and work experience matches what the company is looking for or you have no work experience to speak of the certification will put you ahead of someone that doesn't have one.

I'll give India credit. They have a MicroSoft site equal to the one in Redmond Washington. The people are graduating from college over there, getting those MS certifications and they are working here in the US with no problems.

You better wake-up *boy*. This is the US and Microsoft is king and there are plenty of programming jobs out there IF you have the right skill sets the employer is looking for and companies are despartly seeking programmers with the .NET skill set here in the US..

I have Linux on my network at home little one and I respect it and I also respect MS too as I am no fool and need money in my pockets.

You need to wake-up if that's possible for someone like you and don't be

Duane :)