What do you want? What are your end goals? It's hard to answer this without knowing that.
For example, if you want to work for a SV startup, I'd move out there asap, as the skills they want are decaying right now.
Or, if you wanted to teach CS, or even IT, at the college level, you should take classes and get a MS or PhD in CS.
Or, if you want to do webdev and support for local companies and ColdFusion interests you, you could learn the ins and outs of ColdFusion, learn project management and estimation, and set up some of the basics of the Joel Test ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html ) for your current job, and learn a ton.
Unfortunately I just moved _back_ from the SV area, my wife didn't like being so far from family. A startup sounds interesting though.
I'm still pretty vague on what I want -- I've only worked (as a developer) for one other company.
I guess the standard advice is to do a lot of side projects to find out what's interesting, but I've had a hard time motivating myself to write code outside of work.
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What do you want? What are your end goals? It's hard to answer this without knowing that.
For example, if you want to work for a SV startup, I'd move out there asap, as the skills they want are decaying right now.
Or, if you wanted to teach CS, or even IT, at the college level, you should take classes and get a MS or PhD in CS.
Or, if you want to do webdev and support for local companies and ColdFusion interests you, you could learn the ins and outs of ColdFusion, learn project management and estimation, and set up some of the basics of the Joel Test ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html ) for your current job, and learn a ton.
Unfortunately I just moved _back_ from the SV area, my wife didn't like being so far from family. A startup sounds interesting though. I'm still pretty vague on what I want -- I've only worked (as a developer) for one other company. I guess the standard advice is to do a lot of side projects to find out what's interesting, but I've had a hard time motivating myself to write code outside of work.