why NO .NET jobs?

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Hi, I am a fresh man from University of Bridgeport, Connecticut (MS in computer science). I have done wonderful projects in C#, ASP.NET. Who ever gets to know about my project, say that it’s really great. It's a Web based multi-tier, database oriented "stock market analyzer". I am searching for job since July and this is Oct, I haven't got any job in .NET. My GPA is above 3. NO SPONSORSHIP REQUIRED. Several jobs have come really close but just goes off… they call me to do requirements gathering or some time senior level job, but at last goes off...am ready to do any job based on .NET. I live in Stamford, Connecticut and am searching for job anywhere in Connecticut and New York City. Then why still? Is it a bad field.... or bad market for .net? Or bad for fresher alone ?am really frustrated... should I have to change my field? Awaiting advice, supu [email protected]

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tsuman_in23y ago
A lot of companies that run in-house IT staff are not looking for developers right now--there seems to be a push for outsourcing. I've been toying with .NET since Beta 2, and I think I'm at a competent level of understanding now. At my company, there are no developers that do .NET development--everyone does ASP/VBA development. I'm one of 3 in the company that ventured on there own to learn it, and now (since everyone wants the newest and grooviest) I get to do all the new and fun stuff in CMS.NET. Still the company doesn't even plan on training other developers until sometime next year. A few years ago in the dot Net mag, they had an article on how MS expected .NET to work its way around. If I remember correctly, they expected almost no growth for the first 2 years, and with proper marketing I believe they are hoping to drastically cut legacy application support as it should be phased out. I hope that's true, and after what I saw on MSDN about Longhorn and .NET 2.0...man, .NET development is really going to get fun (especially since I love XML programming). Good luck!
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Mahesh Chand23y ago
I won't say there are no jobs. There are jobs but the problem is market condition. Market is not good enough to hire a fresher when you can get an experience programmer for less who can take requirements, design, code, test, and deploy solutions. Hopefully market conditions get better soon ..
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