Re: genral question


> If you ask me, success lies in specialization, not vast general
experience

I don't know that specialisation is necessarily the way to interesting experience either :-) It can lead to feelings of being bored / trapped / unemployed when your speciality peters out etc.

I do agree that there is only so much you can learn in any given time, but learning an extra, widely used language, doesn't really count as "vast" experience, does it? :-)

If you want something more interesting, make sure your skills are rare.

And make sure the area you specialise in is something you find interesting, and that there are sufficient jobs available in that area where you are (or be prepared to move).

Also, to some extent the programming language determines what type of work you might find. Large scale enterprise-level projects are more likely to use Java than C# or Delphi for example. AI programmers are more likely to use Lisp, Prolog, or one of the other declarative languages. If you want to be a DBA, excellent knowledge of the SQL dialects would be a good thing.


Cheers,
Jim Cooper

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