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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!sdd.hp.com!apollo.hp.com!netnews
- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Jobs programming Windows?
- Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <BxKFLq.DCy@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:03:26 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Nntp-Posting-Host: c.ch.apollo.hp.com
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA
- Lines: 45
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- [ Note to anyone from HP reading this: I checked with
- Human Resources to verify that all this information
- (e.g., the downsizing, the VSI, etc) *is* information
- I'm allowed to mention outside the Company ]
-
-
- My company, like many in this industry is forced to
- reduce the size of its workforce. They're offering
- a very generous voluntary severance incentive package
- to groups of employees with the hope that enough of them
- will accept it to eliminate the need for layoffs.
-
- Although I like working for HP and think is has an excellent
- future, it would be foolish of me to not at least *consider*
- other possibilities if I'm one of the people eligible for
- this program (I expect to be but I won't know for sure
- until the end of November.)
-
- I've been programming 3D graphics in C and Pascal on
- Unix workstations and similar enviromnents for the
- last 9 years. (prior to that I programmed in assembly
- language)
-
- But if I left this job I would be interested in Windows
- programming. I've been doing that at home (along with
- C++) and am currently taking a Windows programming course
- at Boston's Northeastern University and I really enjoy it.
- I will have NT set up on my PC in December and long-term,
- that's where I want to concentrate.
-
- The question: is there any likelihood of getting a job
- doing Windows? The impression I get is that employers want
- to see work experience in Windows programming. Since I
- don't have any, and it's a tight market, how do I get some?
-
- Should I just stay put or is there a way to get into Windows
- programming with my background?
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
-
- ---peter
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