NYCPHP Meetup

[Jake McGraw]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Biermann, Gary (02940)
<gary.biermann at rht.com> wrote:
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> Speaking from the side of the "Evil Ones", and having been one here in
> Manhattan for a few years now, I would have to agree with Jake and Jason.
> In the last 1.5 years even surprisingly average developers are getting
> multiple offers with in a week of being on the market and most of them are
> using multiple recruiters.  At the agency I work for we have not had no less
> then 3 PHP development positions that we were trying to fill at any one time
> for the last year.  If you asked me 4 years ago I wouldn't have known what
> PHP was.  If are are looking for higher paying work, my advise would be to
> do some research on which skills are in most demand.  Us "Evil Ones" tend to
> have that info readily available.
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> Gary Biermann

In case anyone doubts what Gary is saying, I would like to add that he
got me my first job out of college two years ago, when I had only
cursory PHP experience, as, you guessed it, a software developer
working primarily in PHP.

- jake