Hi Everyone,
I'm in a strange place in the beginning of 2007. I have to change careers from what I've been doing which was PHP, PERL, Javascript, mySQL systems on Linux for the Internet to doing ASP.NET, C#, etc. Its what everyone wants where I'm from and after working with it for the last month every single day I see why. Its an awesome tool to work with and the better I get it feels like it programs itself. I'm getting pretty good at it and given a few more weeks I'll probably feel very comfortable with it.
My problem is that my on the job experience is all in non-.NET stuff so I'm looking inexperienced in development to people looking for .NET programmers. Has anyone ever switched over in their career? Any advice for landing that first job in the new area would be appreciated.
I have a bachelors in computer science and am learning C#, .NET and ASP.NET via 5 Wrox and O'Reilly books I purchased and a copy of Visual Studio 2005. If anyone has any suggestions on a better way to learn I'd love to hear them.(other resources, etc)