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arnuld wrote:

> I do programming on Linux and live in 2nd corner of the country (when my
> home is in another quite far corner) just because I got the system
> programming job in Linux.  Now what if my manager is saying that I have
> to work on some Java project for half an year on Windows. Thats OOP and
> application programming, not related to my 4 years of work experience.
>
> I want to work on Linux/UNIX/BSD/*NIX only and do system programming. I
> am willing to work on any other language like Haskell/Caml/Ruby/Python
> etc as they belong to a sharing-community and they are cross-platform and
> increase the skill of programming. but Windows based work .. is no no for
> me. I don't want to put Java on Resume, rather I will put half an year
> reading Richard Stevens books.
>
> I want to decline his authoritative request. What would do you in my
> situation ? Whats your view on this ?

Find another job or expand your work experience that despite the bad taste
you have for it you can demonstrate the skills necessary to progarm
sucessfully
in any language on any environment. You also have the option of saving the
drive to work and donating your time and programming skills to the sharing
community..