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I wonder if a more useful comparison would be salary (or rate of change of salary over time). I started learning functional programming over Christmas 2008 for
by timrobinson 16y ago
I wonder if a more useful comparison would be salary (or rate of change of salary over time).
I started learning functional programming over Christmas 2008 for two reasons:
- Mainly because it looked fun, and very different from what I'd done before
- Although I had no idea whether F# or Haskell jobs would come up, I knew that if they did come up, they'd be just right for me
- thomas11 16y agoSo, did any jobs come up? Looking at your blog, you seem to be have been pretty involved in F# until May.
- timrobinson 16y agoAn F# job did come up, and I'm quite happy with it :) I'd like to be more involved in the functional programming community; it's easy to dip in and out of Twitter and forum discussions, but blogging is one thing that's dropped off since the summer.
- Periodic 16y agoI've been getting more and more invested in functional programming to the tune of Haskell and Erlang over the last two years. Unfortunately, the jobs seem to be all Java and Ruby on Rails, because that's what my resume says I have experience with. Me: "I'm really interested in functional programming and scaling distributed computing." HR: "Well, I see here you've worked on Java in the payment industry. We're always looking for more people to work on our reporting team. Let's put you over there. I think they have a J2EE web-app from eight years ago that needs a few more features." So I find myself settling and maintaining my sanity with pet projects. I am taking steps to rectify this.