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[Glenn Powell]

My jaded 2 cents...

It's cheaper for your employer to use the most experienced Drupal  
developer for Drupal work.

You can probably get Drupal things done very quickly compared to  
others at your workplace... quick=profit (or getting the job in the  
first place.)

I would guess that your career development is not at the top of the  
priority list for your employer.

Maybe there is a compromise?

Better for everyone if you don't have to leave...


On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote:

> Oh I hope it didn't seem like I was incompetent in PHP, far from  
> it.  Just that every project I get is Drupal based and I want to  
> branch out.  All I can put on my resume is Drupal, Drupal, and more  
> Drupal!  I worked with it for 1.5 years.  Built about twenty custom  
> modules.  Installed memcache a dozen or so times.  Wrote different  
> nodes from scratch and have figured out the Views/Panels/Taxonomy  
> CF.  Just that I don't want to do it anymore, it is tiring and there  
> are better ways to do it.  I was graced with the ability to work  
> with CakePHP for two weeks and was the happiest developer in the  
> world cause it was OOP based and made building a functioning site  
> from scratch easy, the the clients with Drupal all reared their ugly  
> head and that was the end of CakePHP for me.
>
> -Anthony
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Brent Baisley <brenttech at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Congrats, you have job security!
>
> One rarely learns all there is to know about a piece of software.
> Drupal is written in PHP, why not learn PHP? Write some plugins or
> even submit code for inclusion into Drupal.
>
> Knowing Drupal isn't going to qualify you for other projects, only
> Drupal projects. Knowing PHP will qualify you for much more.
>
> I'm actually in the opposite role you are, I know PHP and am getting
> pushed in Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla.
>
> Brent Baisley
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Anthony  
> Wlodarski<ant92083 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been lucky/unfortunate to have acquired quite a lot of  
> knowledge
> > about a certain CMS (Drupal).  Now although I built a pretty cool  
> website
> > and have tackled a lot of the scalability issues I believe I have  
> learned
> > all that I can from the software and would like to move on.   
> Currently I am
> > in a situation where our company keeps pulling in clients that are  
> stuck on
> > Drupal as a buzzword but don't think about the future of their  
> website and
> > the scalability of the CMS itself.  What are some recommended  
> tactics when
> > it comes to dealing with superiors and the displeasure of your  
> current
> > projects?  Also how do you keep yourself from being pigeonholed  
> into a
> > project because you have a vast repository of knowledge on the  
> matter?
> >
> > I feel that no matter how many times I discuss with my manager how  
> much I
> > want to move on and learn new technology I am going to be stuck in  
> the same
> > situation forever, I see new projects roll in and hope they get  
> assigned to
> > me but then I just see them float along and then I see a whole  
> bunch of
> > To-Do's with Drupal filling in my inbox.  Is it time to find a new  
> job?
> > --
> > Anthony W.
> > ant92083 at gmail.com
> >
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