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The world economy is in recession and job opportunities are scarce, particularly for fad skills such as extreme programming. Perhaps you should broaden your search. Good luck.
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Hi,
Is anyone on this site from Singapore?
My husband and I will be relocating to Singapore in the coming couple of months. So I am interested in knowing about the IT job/industry scene there.
I have about 4 years experience in IT , mostly C++, a little bit of MFC/VC++. I am open to both full time and independent contractor type of jobs.
Could anyone suggest some web sites/companies/people who I could contact for work?
Any other pointers related to working life in S'pore would also be great !
Thanks
Nandita
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I just left Singapore and came back to the U.S.
Reason: No more jobs !! I have 6 yrs experience programming just about everything ..
Goodluck ..
If it makes you feel any better there are no jobs in the U.S. either .. 
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Hello,
I hope I am putting this in the right place, but I thought I would ask it. I am looking at learning the new technologies that are out there, but I work for a very small company (4 person R&D.. 1 Embedded HW designer, 1 Embedded SW Eng, 1 Doc Specialist, and me Windows Software Engineer.) I am used to working for companies that have 20+ developers but I was laid off during financial difficulties.
I am a good C++ programmer although I want to learn all the tips and tricks of the gurus whose education was EE - hardware. I want to be as good as those people that write the good books. Some how I got off on the SW Eng and never looked back. However I have a significant hurdle that I have dealt with all my life... I am on the wrong side of the borderline of dyslexia.. Although I know several tricks to make reading easier, and they work extremely well for writing/reading code, but some times it is frustrating. This never bothered me when I was in college or working in a bigger development house, because I am very quick to learn when I have someone to talk with about the issues. (Being dyslexic has nothing to do with intelligence.. just reminding myself.)
Earlier this year, I took my first on-line class in OpenGL. (really hoping to get in to game development...) However it was also still alot of reading and the email feedback. I learned because I wanted to learn, but I could have done better... Are all on-line courses like this? My new company can barely afford to pay the staff, let alone will they heed my calls to send me to training and the last time I tried to take a programming course at night from our local "college", I ended up knowing more and teaching more than the professor.
I am looking for solutions, but if I have too I will continue to power my way through books. However any help would be appreciated.
Brian
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HAve you tried any text to speech programs? They can take an online book or email and verbalize it for you.
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This is my first post, I hope it's in the right board.
Anyway, I had been an independent for the last 3 years and found business a little slow over the last year as you can imagine. I accepted a perm position in an IT department almost 2 months ago.
I'm finding the transition to be more difficult than I expected. I've worked on medium to large scale web apps, front-end to back-end as an independent. The size, scope, and importance of the projects I'm working on now just don't feel the same. The expectations are different too. As a contractor you're usually expected to be productive fairly quickly on new projects. I was begging for work by the end of my first week on the job. The pace is slower than I'm used to.
So, I was curious to hear how others have handled the transition.
Am I crazy or what?
Jim
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No your not, I have been feeling your pain for the past year. I work for one of the Big5 and work is slow. The people don't seem as intelligent as I thought they would be and the work is trivial. The most complex coding I do is at night in my own time. You might also begin to notice everyone around you doing nothing all day long, 5 days a week and getting a paycheck for it. Beats me. 
Good luck.
Soliant | email
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." -Albert E.
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I keep myself motivated by telling myself that there are huge opportunities to shape and grow parts of the IT department.
I understand the night time stuff. I've been teaching myself .NET evening/weekends even though my employer has no immediate plans to migrate until early next year.
Thanks,
Jim
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All this sounds rather negative.
I think it depends more of the people you're working with. Last year, I was in a very dynamic company were there was enough work for everybody and opportunity for personal ideas (REAL opportunities). No sleep at the office, believe me!
I'm now abroad for a great but strange experience where the communications with my colleagues is very limited due to the language. The good side is the freedom I beneficiate to address the process and search for new tools, like I would do for my own company. This is highly rewarding!
So my conclusion is: if you're annoyed in your company, you're probably at the wrong place!
Eric
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I ran my own business for 5 years and then took a job with another company. It was the most frustrating 2+ years imaginable. It's very hard to go from being in charge to being just a cog in the machine. I'm back on my own now and even though times are tough, I'm trying to stick it out until things pick up.
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Ed Gadziemski wrote:
It's very hard to go from being in charge to being just a cog in the machine. I'm back on my own now and even though times are tough, I'm trying to stick it out until things pick up
I gave up my bus. and went to work in mfg. last year,and it sucks.nit picking small minded idiots make terrible bosses and coworkers.with the econ. so bad ,it seems like a good time to go back to school...punching a time clock is harder onc youve tasted freedom.
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I wonder if anyone here has any experience in doing distant job? I mean are there any projects that one could participate in (even for free) just to get some experience and practice? I'm personally interested in projects written in ASP and C++ (incl. MFC)
WOuld be grateful for any information.
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If you keen on working for experience and not money then have a look at SourceForge for some of the open source projects.
Cheers,
Simon
"Sign up for a chance to be among the first to experience the wrath of the gods.", Microsoft's home page (24/06/2002)
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Have you thought about charity work? There are a lot of good cause's that desperatly need IT skilled people to do everything from PC building, to network admin to application development. As well as getting experience, you get to help out with issue's that are important to you/the society around you, plus you can give as little/much time as you like.
Pick up your local copy of 'charity events' or 'green events' or what ever you have in your area - chances are they would love to hear from you!
Dylan Kenneally
London, UK
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Thanks, the idea of charity work is brilliant, but there's one problem.
You know, I live in Russia and we don't seem to have any 'charity events'. Is there any information about green events available in the Internet or somewhere else online?
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The only one's I know of are UK based, but it might be worth getting in touch with them and asking them if they know of anything in Russia:
TRY Charity Jobs (www.charityjobs.co.uk[^]), this is for people looking to work for a charity and get paid, but it's all UK based and their IT section is generally tiny.
OR Volentary Service Overseas (VS0) (http://www.vso.org.uk[^]) I REALLY want to do this, if you can spare 6 months to 2 years of your life, this would be a fantastic thing to do! Their desperate for IT skilled people too... When I've gotten myself out of student debt, I'll be having another serious look at this!
Or you could try your local green group (like greenpeace, friends of the earth or people and planet), these groups general have excellent links with other organisations. Here in the UK you can also get information from libraries, would Russian libraries do the same?
Dylan Kenneally
London, UK
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I was just wondering what you think the top 3 most marketable programming skills are. What should I know to give me a better chance at landing my first job out of school? ASP? Perl? Cobol? (lots of want ads for this) Java?
I have SO much C++ experience, but that doesn't seem to mean squat. What do I need?
Thanks,
Tym!
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Hi Tym!
I know your profile says tour in the US, but you might want to take a look at this UK based computer trends site. www.jobstats.co.uk[^] It details job advert trends for IT, so you can see which skills are in demand and how they have changed over time.
It's not exactly a definate measure, but it's certainly a useful site. 
Dylan Kenneally
London, UK
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Thanks Dylan! That's exactly the kind of info I was looking for.
Tym!
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He, he,
looks that our profund C++ skills are not that outdated as often claimed 
(C++ on rank 11 and Java on rank 15  )
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Daniel Lohmann
http://www.losoft.de
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I see the "Bush Recession" is affecting the UK too. Job postings and jobs are way down in the US and not likely to recover for a while.
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Jason Henderson
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"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill
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I wonder what 'Microsoft' line means in this statistics. What technologies do they mean by that?
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Tym! wrote:
what you think the top 3 most marketable programming skills are
Currently, the three top skillsets to have are:-
Experience, Experience and Experience. It's an employeers market, so you have to be very experienced (or in a few cases - very cheap)
Michael 
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana
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