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....I've thought about learning new languages but am hesitant with the present market.
_/Everything/_ you add to your skill set is a plus. It might provide you
a deal-breaker that gets you the job. This has happened for me more than
once. In this career, actually, we MUST keep our skills updated or lose.
So, RPG programmers, even some smart ones, who argue against using
service programs (it doesn't take much to figure out its advantages), or
free format. It's a step to get to GUI programming, from one of several
options, and there are some still arguing now against the need for it.
Those are skills that almost all of us can learn to do, whether
company-paid or on our own. And as we learn them, this will also expand
the market for our jobs. This latency among most System-i shops and
programmers is already a drag on the entire System-i installed base as a
whole, which has a direct proportional effect on the job base for
System-i programmers.
Look at your System-i shops. In my workplace, there are some SQL-Server
guys using DRDA (IIRC) to access the data to serve it up in various ways
in GUI form to executive-level users. What does that make our machine
look like to those guys? I don't have the skill set or the pull yet to
tell them everything can be managed from the System-i, but I am slowly
working on it.
Recently there was a recruiter who said he was willing to connect people
up with Lansa training, because he had unfilled requests for Lansa
expertise. Seems like a promising product to me too...
Another plus might be to make clear you are willing to work in generally
"undesirable" locations are situations. I once took such a job that had
lay vacant for six months in a dangerous neighborhood, but teaching
those who most needed such training.
There was a job opening in Alaska a few years back that got very few
applicants, for which the people who sought to fill it expressed doubt
about a glut of unemployed programmers. (I might have taken it but it
would have been a pay decrease, plus for personal legal reasons)
And doing some related volunteer work might help.
--Alan
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