07-22-2010, 02:16 PM
I doubt anyone is going to hire you to be a front-end guy if most of your experience is in algorithms. The answer is to ask for opportunities to do that sort of work as it relates to your job. Tell them you want to leverage your strengths while continuing to grow, expand, blah blah blah.... If the company you're at now doesn't see that as a path for you, then find one that will. Of course that means your job will be 90% of the stuff you've already been doing until you can prove competencies in the other area and actually have some accomplishments to cite.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth