Can a web developer give me some advice??

Question

I am about to take some classes for my MCSD .Net. To learn web-based apps. using microsoft .net famework and so on. But I am also interested in becoming a Database Administrator. I want to have a career that I can become a independent contractor or consultant. I am not sure what route I should go. The job market seems crazy and not must grace. All employers expect you to know every program language know to man. Can anybody give me some insight to these careers and what one is better.

Thanks

Answer 1

Having been in the web development industry, and having senior architect-level experience with PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, and JSP, I can tell you that .NET developers will make about 10k more than a non-.NET developer of comparable experience and skill. Right now PHP and CFM programmers have to be superstar programmers to net great salaries, but even entry-level .NET developers make a pretty good living right now.

As far as becoming a DBA, learn one specific platform and make that your specialty first, then become competent at other platforms. 99% of organizations are looking for an expert on a single platform - which ever one they already use. If you are a SQL Server expert or an Oracle expert, you will find plenty of jobs in the mid-to-large company market. MySQL is not used very much in non-internet companies.

Edit: No personal offense intended to the answerer below, but that is BS. The last three companies I have worked for employed more than 100 programmers and developers each, all of whom were top-tier, many of whom were contractors, and none of whom were "Dreamweaver monkeys". There is an enormous market for sophisticated web designers and developers - but you will only get as far as your skills will take you. If you have the ability of a trained monkey with Dreamweaver, that's the only opportunities you'll see. If you are a .NET/SQL (or any other platform) expert, you will have your pick of six-figure job opportunities

Answer 2

Hey Mike, Man, you are in a first-rate spot. Sorry approximately the process loss, however it'll certainly be a blessing. In truth, you and I proportion an identical schooling and routine, regardless that I ended up concentrating totally on SEO. I presently make a good dwelling as a contract SEO, delivering my offerings to different corporations. But you've got an possibility to do some thing a bit of exclusive. If you shouldn't have many fees, and so on. then that is your possibility to paintings for your self. I might begin running a blog on all of the ones stated subjects. In every of the ones you're watching at a few lovely most important festival, however should you stick at it and study the way to create nice content material and put it on the market, you can be simply first-class. I'm hanging a couple of hyperlinks within the useful resource spot. Primarily support on running a blog as a industry. I'm additionally hanging a hyperlink to one among my websites. I might like to listen to extra approximately what you intend to do and your development.

Answer 3

as any other topic, sometimes theres a demand, sometimes theres no demand at all, in programming and web programing especially, the demand changes faster than other fields. if u want to learn database, learn mysql also php, after u know those languages, other languages will be easier, as the mechanism is the same, but the command is written differently

Answer 4

Hi Ryzee,

Frankly you can train a monkey to develop simple web pages. Most businesses are finding out that they can just get a copy of Dreamweaver and do all the web development in-house that needs to be done.

http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/

I hope that this helps.

--Rick