From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7d66145c10697d62 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-06 02:05:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: hfrumblefoot@yahoo.com (Hambut) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How did you get started in Ada? Date: 6 Feb 2002 02:05:39 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.131.227.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1012989940 27097 127.0.0.1 (6 Feb 2002 10:05:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Feb 2002 10:05:40 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19665 Date: 2002-02-06T10:05:40+00:00 List-Id: aidan@velvet.net (Aidan Skinner) wrote in message news:... > So, after two years working as a systems and security architect > developing large ecommerce websites, I find myself being made > redundant. > > I'd really like to get a job involving embedded Ada, and there are > some available where I am. However, all of them require experience in > embedded development. Which seems to be the classic catch-22 > situation. > > So I'm wondering how people here got started, or is embedded s/w dev a > prety much closed system? > > - Aidan You could try registering with TPS (www.tps.co.uk)- they seem to place quite a few people with BAE SYSTEMS (who is probaby the single largest user of Ada in the UK). Certainly a few years ago BAE SYSTEMS were on a massive drive to recruit software engineers (offering training etc.) so it might be worth a thought. On another note - be careful what you wish for - in the Ada development environments I've worked in there is a large emphasis placed on process and procedure (and quite rightly considering the nature of the applications), this may be quite alien to what you've experienced so far, so you may need to be prepared for a culture shock. There may not be the slack available for casual creativity that you're used to. Hambut