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Hey all,
I would like to extend my JAVA development skills and would like to know how and where I can get started. I am developing PHP applications at work but love JAVA! I am fluent in the language and am excited to work on contract-based jobs to get my feet wet. Any ideas or links? Free feedback. Thanks.

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Without experience you're never going to get a job as a contractor, certainly not (as you seem to be looking for) as an expat on an H1 visum.
Or if you get it it will be illegal, as companies aren't allowed to hire people with no expience on an H1 (which is reserved for people they can't get locally, and there are tons of people without experience).

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Hi Bensan!

Welcome to JavaRanch! We have a forum especially for job-related topics, so I'll move this there for you.

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Jay Ashar

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Originally posted by Jeroen T Wenting:
Without experience you're never going to get a job as a contractor, certainly not (as you seem to be looking for) as an expat on an H1 visum.
Or if you get it it will be illegal, as companies aren't allowed to hire people with no expience on an H1 (which is reserved for people they can't get locally, and there are tons of people without experience).

I am sorry, did I miss anything? How did you know he/she is looking to get H1? How did you figure out which country he/she is in, maybe he/she is already in US or maybe he/she is not in US and looking for jobs locally, in either case he/she won't need H1, right?

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Jeroen, I don't know anything about H1 (which the original poster didn't even mention), but I do know this doesn't seem like a very nice welcome. Do you think there might be a better way to phrase your advice?

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Welcome to JavaRanch. My advice is to start doing some volunteer work (e.g. open source project). It's a good way to gain some experience with Java and learn from other's code. It will also provide you with code samples you can share during the interview process.

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Rish Jain

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Is there any site available where we can do open source projects?

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Try sourceforge.net. It's got plenty of projects for all kinds of languages and operating systems.

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