Originally posted by Prateesh Pandey:
Hi friends,
I am eight month old in IT industry and working with a top tier IT company. I have been woking on one strange EAI tool called Mercator for eight months.
The project is good but I am not interested to work on a "tool". This is not what i had dreamt before starting my career.
I have cleared SCJP & SWCD exams two years back. I always wanted to shape my career in JAVA technology.
My PM is not ready to release me from this project as nobody wish to work on this tool. I could not leave this company with only eight months experience in hand.
Workload is quite high and i don't get enough time to continue my JAVA studies.
What should I do to shape my career in JAVA? Please suggest . . .
I think there are pros and cons working with a technology which just some people know well:
Pros:
- You belong to a very small group that knows the technology. This makes you be more required by the compay.
- For being so restrictive, you can earn more money because they can't find no one to work with that.
Cons:
- If this company you work for fails, you fail too.
- You become isolated from other people, because the majority works with more popular technologies, as Java, .NET, etc.
- If you have some species of trouble about something, you don't have many people to help you (same case as isolation I've already said)
- Maybe one day you want to work with Java. If you stay at your current job you'll have nothing to put in your resume as experience.
SCEA 5 (part 1), SCBCD, SCWCD, SCJP, CLP, CLS