So say you DO graduate with a BS (mine was a BS in Computer Science and Engineering) from a state school with an average program. My first and current job is developing HL7 interfaces for clinical applications at a small hospital, which I've been at for two years. Not a major league job by any means. I have a very good reputation within my department and in the organization as a whole. I would like to do app design or development on a larger scale, but that would of course require me to shove off and somehow get a foot in the door of a place that does that kind of thing, when I have virtually no on-the-job experience in that. I've looked on and off, but the only offers I find are along the same lines of what I already do (and thus I find that my first job is beginning to decide my career path, as you say). How can I possibly make the leap to a development job if my experience doesn't really help me and my degree is already a bit aged?
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So say you DO graduate with a BS (mine was a BS in Computer Science and Engineering) from a state school with an average program. My first and current job is developing HL7 interfaces for clinical applications at a small hospital, which I've been at for two years. Not a major league job by any means. I have a very good reputation within my department and in the organization as a whole. I would like to do app design or development on a larger scale, but that would of course require me to shove off and somehow get a foot in the door of a place that does that kind of thing, when I have virtually no on-the-job experience in that. I've looked on and off, but the only offers I find are along the same lines of what I already do (and thus I find that my first job is beginning to decide my career path, as you say). How can I possibly make the leap to a development job if my experience doesn't really help me and my degree is already a bit aged?