You have assess yourself what division you would excel as an IT personnel. My question is, will do programming in either of the two divisions? You see, if you love programming and you enjoy it, go into it IMHO. Sometimes their is a tradeoff between enjoying what you're doing and a higher salary. To me, database programming has lots of employment potential (others may argue) than the other one because you will not be confined by just few industry specifics.

>Hi,
> I am a jurnior programmer and work in a smart card solution company. My boss want somebody to join a project. And the jobs will deivided into 2 main categories
>1. Smart Card Firmware (AP)
>2. Database management (may involve banking transaction and multi-user environment)
>
>My boss ask me decision, either join the smart card division or database division. As the matter of fact, I don't have any idea. Therefore, I would like to ask for comment from anybody.
>May you give you comment or recommendation? Which is more in potential , higher salaries in future? Or any other issue...
>
>Thank you