I kicked ass. Yeppers. Ahh, happy day. Now, to recap: in the last four days I 1) Got my iron ring; 2) I became an uncle for another child; and 3) I got a job today. Yay!
Tomorrow I am going to go "see the team" and I guess fill out paper work @ 1400. I start on Jan 5th as a CS-01 at Industy Canada. I might be able to find a different job, but I'd rather get one now an get more experience. I guess in a month it'll be time to update my resumé again. ;-) Yay! Now I can feel better about buying christmas gifts and not worry about totally running out of money.
I am happier about this position after meeting the lead developer. She's really into XP and I'll be doing J2EE using tools like ant and WSAD and some rational tools (read: IBM). I think that it will be good experience for me. Now all I have to do is start saving more money...
Currently I think that it will be a contract for 3 months to end of fisical year (March 31st), with an extension after. I guess it will depend on how much they like me. We'll see. Now all I have to do is just learn what the hell J2EE is.... ;-)
You've got almost a month off to learn all that J2EE stuff. You'll have no problem, since you already know Java. It's kind of just applying Java to the web development paradigm. Lots of fun. I looked at it for a while once. I should really look into it more, just to get some experience. Seems to be a really hot item.
ReplyDeleteCongrats. :)
ReplyDeleteYAY!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Jim!
Thanks all. ;-)
ReplyDeleteGo Jim Go!! You rock!!
ReplyDeleteJ2EE kicks .NETs ass for the following reasons:
ReplyDelete- choice: tons of opensource frameworks to use
- integration: to tons of other Java software (usually free) from image processing to database connectivity oh and did I mention almost flawless integration to eclipse?
- no ASP and VB that want to make me vomit in terror
- large user community for support
Look around in the jakarta project, it is all centered around J2EE. The only problem with J2EE is it's hard to handle sometimes, learning curves for things like Struts (developmenet framework) and Enterprise Java Bean are quite steep but still fun challenges. EJB's are still magic to me. :P