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arnuld wrote:

> 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.

You are lucky.  Tell the manager "thank you very much, how soon can I get 
going?"

Look at it this way: currently:
    - you don't know OOP
    - you don't know Java
    - you don't know Windows
    - You don't (I'm guessing here, but it seems likely from your post) know 
/anything/ except Linux and C (or maybe it's someother *X and perhaps its C++ 
instead of C).

That is not exactly unemployable, but there aren't going to be a hell of a lot 
of jobs that you can show you have the ability to take on before you're hired.

Or maybe I'm wrong: if so then just find another job.  But my betting is that 
you'd find it hard to find another job like the one you /were/ doing.  So maybe 
your best chance is either to stay where you are and hope/plan to move back to 
more systemsy work in the future (6 months is not a long time); or to stay 
where you are a hope/plan to move to a different (more systemsy) job once you 
have leared some new stuff, and thus made yourself that bit more employable.

Anyway, learning new stuff is always[*] a good thing.  Java's a fairly nice 
language.  Windows is a pretty good platform.  Different, yes of course, but 
different's a good place to visit.  So have fun!

    -- chris

[*] I don't claim there are no exceptions to this rule ;-)  Perl sort of leaps 
to mind...