Coming from the consulting angle, it is much easier to get work doing web related stuff, and that work pays better I am finding. Even the desktop stuff I am doing either has a web component, communicates with the web or a website in some way or has a version that is a website. Learn your Javascript and have a decent working knowledge of HTML and CSS.
I do think that you should know probably PHP (for consulting most web projects are in this or are extensions of projects written in it) and one of either Ruby or Python.
There are opportunities out there, just not nearly as many. Also keep in mind as a recent graduate you are competing with all the people who never made the web transition because they already had 3-5 years experience on the desktop that now have 10-12 years experience there.
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Coming from the consulting angle, it is much easier to get work doing web related stuff, and that work pays better I am finding. Even the desktop stuff I am doing either has a web component, communicates with the web or a website in some way or has a version that is a website. Learn your Javascript and have a decent working knowledge of HTML and CSS.
I do think that you should know probably PHP (for consulting most web projects are in this or are extensions of projects written in it) and one of either Ruby or Python.
There are opportunities out there, just not nearly as many. Also keep in mind as a recent graduate you are competing with all the people who never made the web transition because they already had 3-5 years experience on the desktop that now have 10-12 years experience there.