Thinking of getting certified... what kind of salaries can one make (obviously fresh out is way less than an experienced mid level developer). Just trying to get a feel for whether it's worth my time/energy. Already mid-level manager but I have decent MIS background, finding MS Access ODBC'ing has reached it's limitations. A tentative plan is learn .NET front end and then brush up on SQL for the back end (have not used SQL for almost 10 years- LOL). Ready for a career change... Feel free to PM me for furthur discussions. THANKS!
I have done .NET for school, though I do mostly (Linux) C++ OOP for work. I just finished an ASP class using C# for my masters and I was amazed how much has changed with ASP .NET (compared to classic ASP I did years ago). Good luck on the career change.
I work with .Net It's time to move on from MS Access. You can certainly make more working with .Net. If you are going to learn .Net and really want to make the big bucks then learn Azure. Microsoft is betting the farm on the cloud computing and Azure is their platform.
No but our tiers are much better than that in a lower cost of living area. And we have FULL kick butt benefits with $400 deductibles (used to be $200 but they had to raise it due to rising healthcare costs....retarded but hey I'm not complaining after reading yours is $2000 deduct).
Holy $hit. I need to move on. I will check out Azure. I am too smart to be making what I'm making. GOOD GOD!
HAR! me too.. DOT.NET? I have tons of experience in MS stuff. i have no certs though. they help sometimes in getting a job. not sure if they help if you already have one. i have heavy sql server experience, DBA, tuning, server build and setup, support 32/64 bit, standard and enterprise, replication from SQL server to SQL server and from Oracle 11g Enterprise to SQL server (thats one of my specialties). Web services. transaction processing. ODBC, ADO, OLEDB. i write high performance stuff in win32/64 in C/C++. I do Web services and console apps (jobs that run under SQL server) in C# and VB.NET. i also have experience in Centos/Linux Oracle Enterprise on Centos and Windows. having said all that.. my company is moving to java/Oracle/Apache/Tomcat so im coming up to speed on those platforms (eclipse/netbeans). so i started looking around at job openings in general and there appear to be more java/apache type jobs than MS DOTNET. something to think about. i have every development tool and OS that MS makes short of data center products. I have the top MSDN subsription with licenses for around 500 installs... gonna miss the ole MS environment if i move into java/open stuff. some of those quoted salaries strike me as being a bit high.. at least for east coast below the rust belt.
Whole lot of good info in here folks. Thanks to everyone for their contributions/insights. Word has it we are going SAP in ~ 3 years so that is an option for me also and would give me options in many a fortune 500 company.
Yeah my job is mostly java/tomcat/open source stuff and Cobol. Cobol is OLD but programmers are few and in between which is why I'm doing what I do......job security