New Job - software developer

[Suchy]

Ive finally managed to get a job offer after being out of university for closing in on two years. Cant wait to get started and get my brain working for once. Means that I have a commute now that reminds me to tell my insurance that I will be commuting now.

[ravingdavis]

Congratulations on the job!

Welcome to the wonderful land of the employed :)

[Stuuk1]

Well done! Software developer sounds interesting..

[Fallout]

Well done chap! I was a software dev for 4 years. I hope you're working on something interesting. :)

[Cymraeg_Atodeg]

Have a chat with ThoOnlyNemisis, he does software crap too! Ha ha

Also, congrats

[andrewsmith]

Congrats

[Suchy]

Glad to finally getting an opportunity to kick start my career and get out of my part time store assistant role after 7 years. Means ill have weekend free for once in my life.

[Epic Monkey]

Congrats dude. I'm a software and database developer too :)

[hindle8907]

Congratulations,

[timwilky]

Congrats,

I started writing APL on IBM in 1977, thenFortran, Basic, Pascal on GEC4080s in the 1978 followed by
Fortran on PDP11 1980
Fortran/assembler on CA Naked Minis 1983
Fortran Macro 32 on VAX 1984
Fortran on ComputerVision 1985
C on SunOS 1988
6809,68000 8080 assemblers
then came PCs


Somehow Oracle SQLPlus, Forms 2.3->3->4.5 and now APEX
JAVA, C# and VB

PHP, javascript etc. FFS I have been writing code for over 30 years

So once you start you seem to have a skill for life (or until they find an Indian outsource to do your job).

[Fallout]

So once you start you seem to have a skill for life (or until they find an Indian outsource to do your job).

And there is no escape. Unless you're willing to take a major pay cut and retrain, or short of starting your own business, you end up stuck in code. :rolleyes:

[Epic Monkey]

And there is no escape. Unless you're willing to take a major pay cut and retrain, or short of starting your own business, you end up stuck in code. :rolleyes:

Disagree with this, you could quite easily step from dev into a consulting role after a few years. So don't have to be stuck in code at all.

[k1ngy SV]

well done :)

[Fallout]

Disagree with this, you could quite easily step from dev into a consulting role after a few years. So don't have to be stuck in code at all.

Software development consultant? In my experience, they either end up knuckling down and doing some coding, or they're at the architect level, and then 'quite easily' stepping there isn't very easy at all. You need 20 people coding for every person sipping cups of tea and drawing pretty diagrams. :)

[tigersaw]

We are looking for some teccy youngsters just now;
http://natscareers.co.uk/pages/engineering-technician-training-scheme/index.html

[larssonn]

Coding is good but like to look at architecture as well to keep up to date. MVC3, Jquery, Agile, TDD are the things that people want just now. And Sharepoint for some reason :confused:

[Suchy]

We are looking for some teccy youngsters just now;
http://natscareers.co.uk/pages/engineering-technician-training-scheme/index.html

Would have been better for you to put that up in your own thread as I doubt many electrical and electronics engineers will be looking at this thread maybe post up about the job separately. May have more luck as software and electronics are different disciplines. I know that will be more of what your looking for as at college I did a BTEC National Diploma in Electronic Engineering before deciding that the unit about programming was more the route I wanted to take.

[Davadvice]

congrats.

I've been doing DB dev for the last 8 years and still like it.

ppl poo poo it when they have done it and didn't like it. It all depends on what you have to do, but it's good and bad just like every job.

[tom-k6]

congratulations mate, glad to hear that the job front isnt all dried up out there.

on another note, i feel like i have just fallen into the Matrix with all the talk of writing in code aha

[nukefusion]

Congratulations! :thumleft:

Same field of work as myself. Never knew there were so many software devs on the SV forum.

[hindle8907]

Congratulations! :thumleft:

Same field of work as myself. Never knew there were so many software devs on the SV forum.

We're all either I.T Guys or Software Devs !

[Fallout]

We're all either I.T Guys or Software Devs !

Boring work lives, countered by the thrill of the SV. :D

[TheOnlyNemesis]

Congrats, welcome to the dark side.