How development finally pays off
I am a web developer. Not a life-saving job. At all.
Being a software developer is an abstract job. When you go home in the evening, you can't bring anything useful with you. Knowing what Response.Redirect() means, does not help you climb up a tree to save the cat. Learning about stacks in school does not make it less painfull when, at the grocery store, someone ignores the line and skips the waiting part to go ahead. On the contrary.
But today I finally found a use for my being a web dev :D I was looking at monster.com. You know, the job search engine. It is divided into countries. If you want to look for a job in sunny Mexico, you have a site for Mexico. And so on. I found it nice at the beginning. But frustrating at a point. Being a freelance consultant, I don't really care where the job comes from as long as it is the job I am looking for. So after going on many of the sites, I started to ask myself why is it that you don't have a Monster site where you can search for the job you want in all the listings of all the countries?
If you are a web dev, you do :D Browse to any site, put in the key word(s) of your search and hit enter. Let's suppose you are searching for "asp net". Results from the current country will be displayed as well as the page URL:
http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?re=130&cy=us&brd=1&JSNONREG=1&q=asp+net&rad=20&rad_units=miles
In there you can find the id of the current country and information about the city you could select(zip code, distance from the city etc). All you really need here is the keywords you entered. So if you leave the URL at http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?q=asp+net and hit enter, guess what you will get - asp net listings from all the countries.
So yes, 5 years of university, 3 of work... it does pay of to be a web developer in the real world too =))
Being a software developer is an abstract job. When you go home in the evening, you can't bring anything useful with you. Knowing what Response.Redirect() means, does not help you climb up a tree to save the cat. Learning about stacks in school does not make it less painfull when, at the grocery store, someone ignores the line and skips the waiting part to go ahead. On the contrary.
But today I finally found a use for my being a web dev :D I was looking at monster.com. You know, the job search engine. It is divided into countries. If you want to look for a job in sunny Mexico, you have a site for Mexico. And so on. I found it nice at the beginning. But frustrating at a point. Being a freelance consultant, I don't really care where the job comes from as long as it is the job I am looking for. So after going on many of the sites, I started to ask myself why is it that you don't have a Monster site where you can search for the job you want in all the listings of all the countries?
If you are a web dev, you do :D Browse to any site, put in the key word(s) of your search and hit enter. Let's suppose you are searching for "asp net". Results from the current country will be displayed as well as the page URL:
http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?re=130&cy=us&brd=1&JSNONREG=1&q=asp+net&rad=20&rad_units=miles
In there you can find the id of the current country and information about the city you could select(zip code, distance from the city etc). All you really need here is the keywords you entered. So if you leave the URL at http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?q=asp+net and hit enter, guess what you will get - asp net listings from all the countries.
So yes, 5 years of university, 3 of work... it does pay of to be a web developer in the real world too =))
