Career path - where next?

[Hank Fay]

I would second the recommendation for Django: on LinkedIn, the python jobs postings (there is a Python group there) most often mention Django.

I also would second the recommendation to participate in open source projects.  I met a couple of days ago with a college sophomore who is a core contributor to the Cappuccino project(cappuccino.org -- warning: not Python <s>).  My employer said, on my relating the pleasant and interesting conversation we had, "he doesn't need to finish college: anyone would hire him."

>From a selfish (to you and to me <s>) perspective, may I suggest the pyjamas (pyjs.org) project and accompanying visual designer (http://pyjsglade.sourceforge.net), which brings the GWT widgets to Python, for desktop and web apps.  Selfish to me because I'm porting our VFP framework to there over the next year or so.  To you because, well, you've been spoiled by having the most productive data-oriented software development framework available, past or present, for maybe as many years as have I (21 at this point, started with FoxPro 1.0), and that's the end result at which I'm aiming.

Hank