simon_marklar
21-03-2006, 02:48 PM
I'm over my current job.
I'm supposed to build them an access database, and build a web application, but in the 3-4 years that i've been here they use the database i've written twice per year. Most of my time is spent putting in the data or correcting thier mistakes. The web side of things is just horrendus, the boss seems to be afraid of what the web can do for us and shoots down nearly every suggestion i put forward. I just finished updating the website so its data driven only to be told that the content is going to completely change - but not when. I spend the majority of my time reading crap on the net, and i can feel my skill set getting smaller.
I need to get out of here.
Thing is, i never went to uni. I got a job in IT after leaving school and all my skills are self taught. Most of my web sites (if they are still being used) are internal sites. I have no portfolio to show because of this. I left my last job because i burnt out, i was doing my work and the work of my "boss" above me, yet i was continuosly watching people around me being promoted. (reason i got told was because i am too valuable where i am - i knew my job too well it seems.) one day I woke up and just coudnt bring myself to go to work. 2 years later i recovered from what i now know was depression.
I guess im after suggestions as to what to do. I'm a backend programmer and know VB, SQL, PHP, Perl (tho that is getting rusty from not being used) and a bit of Delphi. But most jobs want poirtfolio's. Jobs that dont say that i'm too old, that they are after juniors. I'm self taught and pick up on things fast, and i've been a geek since my atari 2600, computers are in my blood!
I really want to work. Just not in this place.
I'm supposed to build them an access database, and build a web application, but in the 3-4 years that i've been here they use the database i've written twice per year. Most of my time is spent putting in the data or correcting thier mistakes. The web side of things is just horrendus, the boss seems to be afraid of what the web can do for us and shoots down nearly every suggestion i put forward. I just finished updating the website so its data driven only to be told that the content is going to completely change - but not when. I spend the majority of my time reading crap on the net, and i can feel my skill set getting smaller.
I need to get out of here.
Thing is, i never went to uni. I got a job in IT after leaving school and all my skills are self taught. Most of my web sites (if they are still being used) are internal sites. I have no portfolio to show because of this. I left my last job because i burnt out, i was doing my work and the work of my "boss" above me, yet i was continuosly watching people around me being promoted. (reason i got told was because i am too valuable where i am - i knew my job too well it seems.) one day I woke up and just coudnt bring myself to go to work. 2 years later i recovered from what i now know was depression.
I guess im after suggestions as to what to do. I'm a backend programmer and know VB, SQL, PHP, Perl (tho that is getting rusty from not being used) and a bit of Delphi. But most jobs want poirtfolio's. Jobs that dont say that i'm too old, that they are after juniors. I'm self taught and pick up on things fast, and i've been a geek since my atari 2600, computers are in my blood!
I really want to work. Just not in this place.