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I have no doubt that I can learn a lot from designing an operating system myself.

BUT my only doubt is Am I wasting my time. Will I able TO GET A JOB.

The companies are recruiting people who know j2ee and .net and then ... Which company want an operating system programmer.

I ask it again and again again.

Will I able TO GET A JOB ?
Will I able TO GET A JOB ?
Will I able TO GET A JOB ?

I am not asking this out of lack of confidence, but to ensure myself from the
the words of my friends like you...

Thank You.

I don't say this to be rude, but to express my own opinion.

Unless you want to work for Microsoft (and then kill yourself out of shame), the world of osdev isn't very job-oriented. There are very few companies who want to compete with MS and thus, very few jobs available. Most 'devers do what they do to contribute to an open source project or for their own fun.

I do not think that is true any more,There will be more and more job for OS programmers for embedded work etc.
Also they say that they may change the way the bios is programmed, Because these a shortage of
bios programmers,Thats just a small os.

ASHLEY4.

I'd disagree with this.

Not only do I work in an operating system/middleware development company, but I also compete with microsoft, and do quite well at it.

There's always going to be room for people with operating system knowledge.  The most prevailant jobs being embedded system's engineers (I work with embedded systems myself).

However, even outside of the OSDev scope, a good systems developer will always be in high demand; anyone that can develop something as intricate as an OS -- and do it well -- will be looked at as one of the elite, and an asset to anyone's company.  You just may not be actually doing OSDev (I actually do quite a fair bit of Java development in my job, as well).

In any event, to the original poster; nothing's a waste of time if you actually enjoy it.  Are you trying to say that the only reason you wish to develop an OS is to get money out of it?

Cheers,
Jeff

I look at a web site for graduate students called doctorjob.co.uk.

From that site i receive emails about companies looking for students to work for them.

One company thats just placed an advert is symbian, the company that makes the symbian os for advanced mobile phones.
Now just say i applied for that position, i think the company would take favour of me other than someone else who didnt have os development experience.

On the other hand, i recently applied for a job, they saw on my resume that i wrote my own os and were impressed, yet i didnt get the job.

I think what it means is, some companies might see you and think, he knows how to write an os, he must be intelligent. Whilst others look at that factor, realise the same thing but then think 'but he doesn't have the skills for THIS job', and in the end, thats all that matters to them.

Moose

Hmm about the job thingy: What about driver writing for new devices? Embedded os etc etc etc

But writing an os to get hired? I don't think you will succeed in building a good OS. It takes a lot of hard work and A LOT of time. I think you can only get through it when you have fun writing one....

Ok. I can learn a lot and have fun in developing an Operating System. I'm a Computer Science student (B.sc in India [like B.S in U.S] (not even an engineer)) doing my final year. I'm going to submit my operating system as the acadamic project.

Yes. I have learnt a lot, about which my friends are not even have a bit of idea about it.

How come I get a Job?

can I get job related with c, c++ and unix, Shell programming.
Will it pay me worthfully?