Holy crap only $1200 for a apartment with 1500 sq ft. Thats a good deal! I live is bum F**k South Dakota and tell you what pay is crap and a 900 sq ft apartment nothing special will cost you at least $800 and then throw in utilites! Plus the weather sucks! I am finishing college up with my A.S. in Applications Programming and then I am heading out of this hell hole! Hope to get a job coding with the A.S. and will pickup college and get my B.S. after I get a job coding to start on my experience!

Windows 98/SE/ME SUCKS!
Deal with it!
if(windows crashes)
run Linux
else
yeah right!!

RESIST WINDOWS XP!!!!!!!!!!
RESIST .NET TECH!!!!!!!!!!!

freshya, there seems to be plenty of programming job vacancies in the uk!!! Certainly, there are vacancies here too, but almost all require 10+ years exp. in C/C++, Corba, ASP, HTML, Java, SQL Server, ORacle, etc.

And what do I hear??? The Australian government *thinks* that the I.T. industry is booming and there are plenty of vacancies to fill but it doesn''t know for a fact that almost 99% of these jobs require you to have multiple skills with 10+ years experience.

Now, if a person cannot be hired because they don''t have multiple skills with so many years of commercial experience, how on earth are you going to employ this person?

Extreme -

I get the impression that many advertisers post high requirements on their ads to try and draw a better crowd. Why take a junior for $40k when you could take a 10years multiple skills guy for the same amount? They may only get applications from people straight out of uni, and in that case, they''ll prolly take one of them.

Also, I was talking to some bigwigs at last years AGDC and they said they look just as much at uni degrees / 10 years professional experience as they do real world experience (ie, have you made a demo, etc etc)

My favorite req was seeing a Web Dev position that was available back in 97, they wanted somebody with 10 years HTML experience.

I decided not to work for that company. Ever.

Might''a been interesting to meet the people that applied...

Oops, that last AP was me, and I think Dustin_00 just proved my point =)