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Hi All,

After spending more than 5 years in development of database centric business applications, I feel I have nothing to do anything more here. I aint hate this but I want to work in something more technically complicated.

I evaluate my skills like below.

1. I have a good talent in problem analyzing and find optimal solutions.

2. I am expert in solve complex bugs.

3. I am a quick and an enthusiastic learner.

I am interested in computer networking, security and application framework development. I know, a 5 years of experience is not much. Its a small timespan for many of you.

I hope you can understand my appetite to do something different. Please advice me on this.

Regards,
Poppy

Posted 24-Oct-11 16:56pm

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Updated 24-Oct-11 18:36pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-10-24T18:13:00

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I perfectly understand you. You did what I avoided throughout all my career.

What can I advise? Main thing you will need is… courage and patience. You should realize that these days the greater your technical qualification, the harder to find a job or a project where they really want to hire you. One on your main skills will be ability to make some reasonable compromise but — importantly — ability to say "no".

I wish you be on the level yourself and find a team where people can understand and support you. This is increasingly difficult.

—SA

Posted 24-Oct-11 18:13pm

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Abhinav S 25-Oct-11 0:34am

Good advice. 5.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Oct-11 0:58am

Thank you Abhinav.
Hope I did not discourage OP; I did not mean to. :-) Learning and improving qualification is amazing thing.
--SA

Mehdi Gholam 25-Oct-11 1:21am

my 5! and I have added my 2 cents.

popchecker 25-Oct-11 2:00am

Thanks for your kind words. Yes patience and continues effort is the key to success. Thanks :)

Mehdi Gholam · Answer 2 · 2011-10-24T19:21:00

It sounds like you are suffering from burn-out, there is always a lot of things you can do in any discipline and always a ton of things you can learn.

If this is the way you feel at the moment the best advise is to take a 3-4 week break and recuperate.

However if after this break you still feel you are at your ends then there is a couple of things you can do:

1) Find something you like doing currently ( to keep you hired), find something you would like to learn and branch out into that.

2) Break away from your current employment and go into your own business ie consulting.

3) Look into related subjects to your current expertise like NOSQL, BI, Automated Testing ...