Re: any junior positions?

[The411info@aol.com]

I've been reading these messages you guys been sending back and fourth. Let me say, when I finished college I landed a job doing SQL programming, even though I was looking for a job doing C++. After 4 months on my first job I read an article about Java. I did not ask my company for training, instead I use the Java tutorial as my instructor.  If you waited for some one to train you, you are going have to pay the cost in the long run (like now). I believe it is part of our job to find out the latest and apply it if the opportunities present themselves. I've use various extended API's just to become familiar with them and to learn what they bring to the table even though my current job at that time didn't require me to know it. I've seen many projects go to the waste side because some one decided to hire some one and let them learned Java on the job. This is frustrating for developers, who are already been doing Java and have to see the same mistakes over and over. After doing Ja!
va for a while you will come to 

find out that are ways some thing are done, and most case these ways are published in various articles. One thing you should no about this industry from years of experience is that, "Not knowing when to learned new technology is not an excuse". Developers must continue to learn new things regardless of what your current job requires. So, most of you guys going have to be patient, because if you been in this industry for some years, then you should have known about it.