Yeah, Australians have it rough. ADSL2 here costs anywhere between $40-$100, those living a little further from the exchanges get speeds as low as 1.5mbps, and this is in Sydney. I can't imagine what it's like in country Australia. It's a real shame our government decided it's a good idea to CUT investment on broadband.
As a foreigner, I've been lead to believe that Seattle is one of the top tech hubs after the Bay area and NY (don't have any specific source for this). I've noticed the lack of advertised jobs in Seattle while reading the Hiring threads, and this just confirms it.
Is the Seattle scene not as big as I think it is? Or are they just not hiring (through this channel)?
In fact, this has already happened. I have a combined Commerce and Science degree and always thought I was going to be an Actuary. Sort of stumbled into this career and have been loving it since.
It definitely has; I think programming in any language makes me a better programmer in any other language.
However, my concern is applying for jobs relevant to my level of software engineering experience, but requiring X amount of experience in Y. In a situation where I believe my ability is equivalent in Y, is the solution to exaggerate a little on my time spent on Y? Maybe it's not even a big deal in the first place :D
Not really relevant to the article, but I've been worrying a while about being 'too general'.
I'm 6 months into my first full time job, but did work with the same company for the equivalent of 6 months while I was still at uni. During this time, I've done backend development under 4 different platforms, fixed database issues, designed UIs (thanks bootstrap!), solved some basic server issues.
I enjoy my work and I'm learning a lot of new things every single day, but am I spreading myself out too thin? I don't feel like I know any one thing very well. Will I get to a point where I have 4 years of experience, but I won't be able to get any jobs because I'd only have 1 year worth of Rails, 1 year of Django, 1 year of Java and another year of Javascript?