Anyone got .NET contract with no experience?

**SupremeSpod** · 4 August 2005, 10:00

Originally posted by Shimano105

Reason I ask is that I have been considering a permie role which promises to train in .NET.

This goes against all my instincts and I wonder if I might be better served by practise, practise, practise, read all the stuff out there, code loads of apps and generally get a bit good under my own steam, even if it means weeks off and a few short term beer-money contracts.

I reckon financially there wouldn't be much difference between that and the permie pay cut. Plus, who's to say that they will keep to their word and actually provide the training?

So, has anyone got into .NET solely by contracting?

Buy a book, add beer, doctor CV -> Instant Expert!

**Shimano105** · 4 August 2005, 10:11

Kinda what I was thinking Spodly, but keep 'doctoring' to a bluffable minimum.

Desperate measures but hey...

**SupremeSpod** · 4 August 2005, 10:19

Originally posted by Shimano105

Kinda what I was thinking Spodly, but keep 'doctoring' to a bluffable minimum.

Desperate measures but hey...

It didn't do Threaded any harm...

2 Lambo's and all the diplomat wives he can handle, what more could a man ask for?

**handsfree** · 4 August 2005, 10:57

Might be best to take the permie role for now

As someone who is a .Net contractor and who frequently hires other .Net contractors, I would suggest you might be better off taking the permie role.

There are loads of .Net blaggers around, tons of them. And as hirers, we know they're out there (we see them every round of interviews) and we know how to spot them. Every interview I go to now, or do myself, has a lot of very technical questions to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Secondly, .Net is now 4 years old, and there are plenty of us around who have been using it since then. You might be able to bluff it on a CV, but if you get through to interview you can guarantee you are going against a couple of 4 year-ers and the rest 2-3 years.

**SupremeSpod** · 4 August 2005, 11:20

Don't listen to him, FFS, it's only .NET, how difficult can it be?

**Shimano105** · 4 August 2005, 12:10

I agree - sounds like a stiff-@rsed permie to me.

No one is talking about turning up clueless, just get as much experience developing in the stuff as poss without the actual 'I sat at my desk and pretended to code for 4 years' line.

Christ I bet I know more than that plonker already

**BlasterBates** · 4 August 2005, 12:49

4 years

Took me an afternoon to learn .NET

**DimPrawn** · 4 August 2005, 12:50

You won't get into .NET

It's impossible. No one can do it. Too hard you see.

Try Java instead. That's for right plonkers.

**DimPrawn** · 4 August 2005, 12:53

.NET in an afternoon? You must be a speed reader. Took me 24Hrs....

C# in 24Hrs

Anyone got .NET contract with no experience?