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Written by JLangbridge
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Monday, 20 October 2008 22:18 |
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After what seems like a lifetime, I'm still looking for a job. Lolo's mother said that one of her colleagues got a job after having send 400 CVs, and if I believe my email box, there are currently 293 emails. I've been flooding the job sites, answering almost everything I can. Most of them I knew full well I wouldn't get an answer, but some of them I had high hopes. I knew that it wouldn't be easy, I've got an atypical profile, with a more than atypical job experience. France is currently going through a nasty financial crisis, so most of the potential employers are more than cautious. Embedded C/C++ developers aren't currently what people are looking for, however I see literally dozens of offers for J2EE developers. I was interested in Java a long, long time ago and I've always loved the technology, but as far as I was concerned, it wasn't low-level enough for what I wanted to do - pure embedded systems. I've build small systems, I've built tiny systems. I've build a robotic CD/DVD duplication system for a French company, and I was head of the R&D department, with tons of electronics to play about with. Before being fired for lack of work (the technology was sold to a foreign corporation), I had a few weeks to play about with all the material I had. I had dozens of x86 mini-cards, enough electronics, hardware and free time to make most engineers jealous. I made an embedded NAS system using 8 IDE drives, mainly for being a video server. I made an embedded system with the minimum amount of hardware that said hello to me every time I pinged it on the network. I made an embedded Neverwinter Nights server just so I could play something (but that required TONS of RAM). Embedded systems are my joy, I'll admit. Java just doesn't fit in there... Shame. Still, lesson learnt, if I was a J2EE developer, I'd already be working. I've self-taught myself BASIC, assembly, C, Pascal, C++, Java and a few others, so J2EE shouldn't really be a problem.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 08:33 |
