Sometimes you have to take a chance.
During university I did a few internships with SAP and fell in love with ABAP.
By the time I was done studding the financial crisis hit and I couldn't find a job in ABAP programming. Frustrated, I gave up on programming all together and ended up in networking (Started CISCO Certification and all).
Three years later, a recruitment company approached me "Three years ago, you asked, if we had an SAP ABAP job. We have one now. Interested?". I went to the interview and told them that I hadn't produced even one line of ABAP code during the last three years. (I expected for them to send me packing. I simply wanted a bit more up to date experience in job interviews so that I could use that to apply for networking jobs later).
They offered me the job! Three days later, I singed the contract. Never looked back to networking since (even though my experience in this field is still helping me today)
This has been five years ago. Best decision of my life.
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Sometimes you have to take a chance.
During university I did a few internships with SAP and fell in love with ABAP.
By the time I was done studding the financial crisis hit and I couldn't find a job in ABAP programming. Frustrated, I gave up on programming all together and ended up in networking (Started CISCO Certification and all).
Three years later, a recruitment company approached me "Three years ago, you asked, if we had an SAP ABAP job. We have one now. Interested?". I went to the interview and told them that I hadn't produced even one line of ABAP code during the last three years. (I expected for them to send me packing. I simply wanted a bit more up to date experience in job interviews so that I could use that to apply for networking jobs later).
They offered me the job! Three days later, I singed the contract. Never looked back to networking since (even though my experience in this field is still helping me today)
This has been five years ago. Best decision of my life.