Need Advice on LabVIEW as career

[nathand]

Another option is to ask around your university, see if there's a lab that can benefit from your LabVIEW work.  If you can find a project you'll gain experience, you'll have sample code to show potential employers, and if you do a good job you'll have someone at the university who can act as a reference.

[hecmar.arreola]

Two suggestions:

1. Get certification.  One thing I'm still lacking.  I jumped into a career that uses LabVIEW, right off the deepend.  I thought that having a good programming background would be sufficient, but I've been programming in LabVIEW for 5 years and still struggle with making mistakes that turn my code into a big flying speghetti monster.

2. Other than LabVIEW, what else interests you?  What are you getting your degree in.  You can work as a LabVIEW contractor and only do coding 99% of your time.  I think that would get rather dull and boring, personally.  Or, find a career where your LabVIEW skills are utilized.  I work at a test facility and I probably program in LabVIEW 20% of the time. 

[Naqqash]

For your second part. I will be graduating in few months in final semester doing Industrial electronics engineering. Main courses are control, automation and instrumentation.Interested in doing Masters also in Renewable energy systems. For my different project during studies it interest me alot thats why I asked and I will try to do CLAD and then CLD but at the moment I think there is sooooo much to learn.

[Mark_Yedinak]

Don't necessarily put off working on the certification process until you feel you know LabVIEW. Going through the preparation process for the certification is a great learning experience and it really helps you to learn better ways to program. Better to start learning the right way from the start rather than try and break bad habits once they are engrained.

[applysarkarinaukri20]

Thanks for this advice...

[billko]

Don't forget to grab the LabVIEW Home bundle!  Full dev LabVIEW for $50!  You can't use it for commercial development, but it's a great way to keep on top of your LabVIEW skills.