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I am interested in moonlighting in IT; specifically in client server 
implementations and programming projects in Visual C++ and Visual Basic.  
  
I am currently a finacial analyst with a manufacturer in Phoenix AZ  
and am in the 60k salary range. I have a bachelors in finance-accounting 
and will complete my masters in December with a major in International 
business with a minor in information systems.  
  
In December I became a certified Microsoft Solution Developer and have 
about 4 years experience with Oracle RDBMS, Oracle Financials and other 
varied IT skills. I have actually had a dual career in some respects the 
last 2 years in that I have implemented a client server environment and 
data warehouse at my curent employer and wrote a fair share of Visual C++ 
front end at my previous employer.   
   
My question is...how does someone at my level approach firms to  
moonlight in client server or programming. I am not interested in giving up

my hard earned salary and experience in finance right now...but need to 
position myself for 1998 when i plan to go  
full time into client server - finance systems and programming.  
The problem I have had to date is that a lot of IT managers do not look 
beyond my core career (finance) and dont read about all the  
systems skills I have.  
  
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  
  
Blair