UK IT Industry: Thoughts & Advice

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  • #342218
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    Have been out of commercial IT work for 6 years now – trying to get commercial web dev experience (ASP.NET, MVC, whatever) when you’ve only done C#.NET WinForms is a no-go. Even though I’ve also got C, C++ & Win 16/32-bit API commercial experience (with blue chip companies, I might add).

    Either that, or the industry blacklisted me for having an opinion. F~~~ing IT agencies have the whole deal wrapped up anyhow.

    No apologies, I’m not IT droning for anyone. I don’t need to ‘cos I don’t have an expensive wife, kids, mortgage, debts of any kind ‘cos IWMOW decades ago. But I *would* like to be in on an interesting technical project that could bolster my CV a bit, as well as flex my (lapsing) technical muscles.

    Onions?

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    Jan Sobieski
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    #342309
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    Hire the best interview coach that you can.

    "It seems like there's times a body gets struck down so low, there ain't a power on earth that can ever bring him up again. Seems like something inside dies so he don't even want to get up again. But he does."

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    Bobby
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    I’ve been in software developer for decades.

    My thoughts are that the software industry is hard and nasty. Employers only look on software developers as a list of buzzwords. Recruiters sneer at people wanting to use a new technology unless they have _x_ years of industry experience. It is short sighted and stupid.

    I too have experience of C# and WinForms.

    I’m pretty sure the industry is ageist as well. I was told in my thirties by a scumbag recruiter that I was nearing the end of my career.

    It will be easier for you to set up your own software company than get a bunch of idiots to employ you.

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    It'sallbs
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    Agencies in all industries are to be avoided most of the jobs don’t really exist. My old mate form my university days works as a web developer in Central London. He freelances and gets gigs with big companies that, I know he is always self learning and teaching. makes decent money – £400 to £500 per day often. So it obviosuly can be done.

    http://www.leavemeansleave.eu

    #344197

    Thanks to all for the replies, all good advice. I can certainly agree with Bobby’s post – technically illiterate lazy agencies & their dirty tricks have wasted so much of my time. The IT industry likes drones with a plethora of TLA’s on their CV, regardless of your character, and really dislike potential mavericks. In an industry that thrives on innovation you’d think they’d be on the lookout for the next “nerd Jesus”. Nope.

    I’m also currently looking into “IoT” tech, playing with Arduino’s & RPi’s – great stuff, but on the whole the industry doesn’t want to know if it isn’t done the Microsoft way. In this industry, “out on a limb” means Linux.

    Then there’s the endless list of new tech TLA’s to get all “excited” about. I honestly think that the way the IT industry has gone has left me commercially “cold”. I don’t want to have to read so many tech manuals just to find that when I nail it, it’s become obsolete. I first started commercial dev when MFC was the big thing to learn – since then I’ve become exasperated at the amount of tech available.

    Yeah, I think I’ve just managed to talk myself out of it.

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