Looking for junior/mid level VB.NET programmer, Milton Keynes

[Silk]

I'm with Wol on this. VB.NET makes me cry. Loss of refactoring tools, peculiar ways of thinking, long-hand notation, oddities with what it treats as null or not, etc, etc.

All in comparison to C#, clearly.

As you say, £25K seems okay for a junior but with a few years experience I think one'd be looking for more like £30K and senior more like £35K+.

Meh I use both, I don't really see the problem. I've yet to encounter something that's possible in C# and not vb.net but I'm sure you can conjure up some examples.

Oddities with nulls? You mean when checking for DB nulls vs. non DB?
What refactoring tools?
What peculiar ways of thinking (lol)?


FWIW seniors do get around 35k here, with the bonus that is. If we get a bonus.

 

[Wol]

Meh I use both, I don't really see the problem. I've yet to encounter something that's possible in C# and not vb.net but I'm sure you can conjure up some examples.

Oddities with nulls? You mean when checking for DB nulls vs. non DB?

FWIW seniors do get around 35k here, with the bonus that is. If we get a bonus.

yay for bonuses. although wish i earnt that much to start with

 

[Silk]

yay for bonuses. although wish i earnt that much to start with

I'd be on 40k if I'd accepted prev employers final bargaining chip to keep me.

What can I say.. *brushes hair back..* I'm goood.

On a more serious note, if you're a programmer, you will eventually be on 30-40k. If you're good and ambitious that is. Took me 15 years, stick with it eh.

 

[Dr Drae]

What happened about Uni? Where did you end up applying/going?

Hehe, thanks for taking interest man

I ended up applying to Kings College London (I enjoy London, quite prestigious, good jobs upon exit rate), Southampton University (in the hopes that I can get on the foundation course) and Lincoln (I know people there, and the city is just too purdy).

 

[BiG D]

On a more serious note, if you're a programmer, you will eventually be on 30-40k. If you're good and ambitious that is. Took me 15 years, stick with it eh.

Plan B is apparently to move to Canada where programmers are paid decently

 

[Huung]

Moving to Canada is ALWAYS on the cards

 

[Silk]

Moving to Canada is ALWAYS on the cards

Yeah solemn keeps mentioning this, I should look into it.

 

[Haven]

Plan B is apparently to move to Canada where programmers are paid decently

You'll be hard pressed to find many brits who don't want to move to either Canada, NZ or Australia. We all want out

 

[Panda with issues...]

Hehe, thanks for taking interest man

I ended up applying to Kings College London (I enjoy London, quite prestigious, good jobs upon exit rate), Southampton University (in the hopes that I can get on the foundation course) and Lincoln (I know people there, and the city is just too purdy).

Glad to see you gave Soton a shot.

You'll be hard pressed to find many brits who don't want to move to either Canada, NZ or Australia. We all want out

I love the UK, it's like nowhere else in the world (and I've been a LOT of places) but I certainly enjoyed my trip to Edmonton when I was working there for a month in September.

 

[Silk]

You'll be hard pressed to find many brits who don't want to move to either Canada, NZ or Australia. We all want out

So what's stopping us?

 

[Traxata]

Glad to see you gave Soton a shot.



I love the UK, it's like nowhere else in the world (and I've been a LOT of places) but I certainly enjoyed my trip to Edmonton when I was working there for a month in September.

Isn't that because we stole all the other countries artefacts and shipped them back over here anyway?

 

[Wol]

So what's stopping us?

A large expanse of water?

 

[Silk]

A large expanse of water?

Which we can get across.

I think I'll look into this

 

[Tempscire]

Which we can get across.

I think I'll look into this

Mass THN exodus to Middle Earth, anyone?

 

[Huung]

Mass THN exodus to Middle Earth, anyone?

Isn't that New Zealand?

 

[bacon]

Isn't that New Zealand?

Yeah!

You'll be hard pressed to find many brits who don't want to move to either Canada, NZ or Australia. We all want out

 

[Panda with issues...]

So what's stopping us?

Erm, tough but fair immigration laws?

Isn't that because we stole all the other countries artefacts and shipped them back over here anyway?

No, it's because the UK has an incredibly high population density.

This allows for a fantastic level of infrastructure, at levels of sophistication rarely widespread in other parts of the world.

Some other places include parts of Japan, places like Hong Kong, Singapore, parts of the East Coast US and the low countries in western Europe.

None of you realise quite how important this is and how rare it is and how much you take it for granted until you've spent long periods of time abroad where it doesn't exist.

 

[Haven]

None of you realise quite how important this is and how rare it is and how much you take it for granted

Flame bait. A little less assumptive generalization of our collective inadequacy would be be nice please.

 

[thatbloke]

None of you realise quite how important this is and how rare it is and how much you take it for granted until you've spent long periods of time abroad where it doesn't exist.

Case in point: I cannot drive (for medical reasons). Every so often I go to California for business trips - EVERYTHING is miles away from everything else. If you cannot drive, I have to rely on other people to get around and actually do anything or just have an extremely limited range.

America is nice, but unles you can drive, don't go there. I'm not an expert on the subject, but I would expect Canada to be pretty similar.

In the UK, I can still get to (most) places by other means if I need to.

On the flip side, I have a friend who emigrated to Canada with his family over a year ago (his missus had some job out there) - they have never been happier!

 

[Silk]

Initial investigations reveal I wouldn't pass the test, because I have no education above high school. That's a bit insane when I have 17 years experience instead! I'm chasing it up anyway.